DW BUREAU / shimla The COVID-19 death toll in Himachal Pradesh increased to 11 after a 75-year-old patient died in the early hours of Tuesday, officials said. The patient, a woman, from Sarkaghat tehsil's Dagoh village in Mandi district died around 3:30 am at the Shri Lal Bahadur Shashtri Government Medical College and Hospital (SLBSGMCH), Senior Medical Superintendent Dr Jeeva Nand Chauhan said. She was also suffering from renal failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome, he said, adding that the woman was admitted to the SLBSMCH in Mandi on July 16. With this, the number of COVID-19 deaths in the state has risen to 11. The deaths include that of a 70-year-old Delhi woman who had been staying at a factory's guest house at Baddi in Solan district since March 15. She tested positive and died at the PGIMER in Chandigarh on April 2. Initially the state health department showed her death in its record but later it stopped doing so stating that as per protocol, her death should be included in Chandigarh where she had tested positive. On the contrary, Chandigarh authorities said her death should be included in the record of Himachal Pradesh from where she had been referred. The state's infection tally now stands to 1,564. While 1,062 people have recovered and 15 have migrated out of the state till now. The state currently has 474 active cases, the officials said. Solan has the highest number of active cases in the state at 196, followed by 49 in Sirmaur, 48 in Kangra, 47 in Shimla, 39 in Una, 23 in Chamba, 19 in Bilaspur, 17 in Kinnaur, 14 in Kullu, 11 in Mandi and 11 in Hamirpur. India recorded 37,148 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, pushing its tally to 11,55,191 , while the total number of recoveries increased to 7,24,577, according to Union health ministry data on Tuesday. The death toll due to the disease rose to 28,084 with 587 fatalities reported in a day, the data updated at 8 am showed. There are 4,02,529 active cases of the coronavirus infection currently in the country, while 7,24,577 people have recovered till now. Thus, 62.72 per cent people have recovered so far, it said. The total number of confirmed cases includes foreigners. This is the sixth consecutive day when COVID-19 cases increased by more than 30,000. Of the 587 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 176 are from Maharashtra, 72 from Karnataka, 70 from Tamil Nadu, 54 from Andhra Pradesh, 46 from Uttar Pradesh, 35 each from West Bengal and Delhi, 20 from Gujarat, 17 from Madhya Pradesh and 10 from Jammu and Kashmir. Nine fatalities have been reported from Rajasthan, followed by eight in Punjab, seven in Telangana, six each in Haryana and Odisha, four in Jharkhand. (editor@dailyworld.in)