DW BUREAU / chandigarh Twelve more people succumbed to coronavirus in Haryana on Sunday as the state reported another major spike of 1,295 cases, pushing its infection count to 63,282. So far, the state has reported 682 deaths due to the infection, according to a health bulletin. On August 26, Haryana had reported 1,397 infections, its highest number since the pandemic broke out in the state. On Sunday, four fatalities were reported from Panipat, three from Ambala, two from Kurukshetra one each from Faridabad, Rohtak and Sirsa, the bulletin said. The districts from where the maximum cases were reported are Gurgaon (125), Karnal (121), Ambala (120), Faridabad (119), Yamunanagar (85), Panipat (84) and Panchkula (77), the bulletin said. The state currently has 10,980 active cases as 51,620 people have been discharged after recovery. As of Sunday, the state has a recovery rate of 81.57 per cent while the fatality rate hovered around 1.08 per cent. The infection numbers are doubling after every 34 days, according to the bulletin. India's COVID-19 tally zoomed past 35 lakh, just a week after it crossed the 30-lakh mark, with a record single-day spike of 78,761 cases, while recoveries surged to 27,13,933 on Sunday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases rose to 35,42,733, while the death toll climbed to 63,498 with 948 people succumbing to the diseases in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed. The recovery rate has increased to 76.61 per cent while the COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.79 per cent. There are 7,65,302 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 21.60 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.India's COVID-19 cases rose from 20 lakh to 30 lakh in 16 days and 10 lakh to 20 lakh in 21 days. It took 110 days for COVID-19 cases in the country to reach one lakh while just 59 days more to go past the 10-lakh post. India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7 and went past 30 lakh on August 23. According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 4,14,61,636 samples have been tested up to August 29 with 10,55,027 samples being tested on Saturday. Of the 948 fresh deaths, 328 are from Maharashtra, 115 from Karnataka, 87 from Tamil Nadu, 82 from Andhra Pradesh, 62 from Uttar Pradesh, 53 from West Bengal, 41 from Punjab, 22 from Madhya Pradesh, 16 from Jharkhand, 15 from Delhi, 14 from Odisha, 13 each from Gujarat and Rajasthan, 12 from Puducherry, 11 each from Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand. (editor@dailyworld.in)