DW BUREAU / Shimla The Covid-19 tally in Himachal Pradesh reached 4,058 on Sunday with 64 more people testing positive for the virus. There are 1,358 active cases in the state, while a total of 2,640 coronavirus patients have recovered from the infection so far, Additional Chief Secretary (Health) R D Dhiman said. Eighteen patients have died due to COVID-19 and 40 migrated out of the state.Of the 64 fresh cases, 22 were reported from Sirmaur, 19 from Kullu, 12 from Mandi, six from Chamba and five from Kangra, Dhiman said. In Kullu, all the 19 new cases are agricultural labourers, Superintendent of Police Gaurav Singh said, adding that all of them have been quarantined. Meanwhile, eight patients -- five in Kangra and three in Sirmaur -- recovered from the infection, Dhiman added. Solan has reported the highest number of active cases in the state at 319, followed by 168 in Kullu, 157 in Chamba, 156 in Sirmaur, 131 in Mandi, 109 in Una, 93 in Kangra, 82 in Hamirpur, 66 in Shimla, 60 in Bilaspur, 15 in Kinnaur and two in Lahaul-Spiti. India's COVID-19 tally rose to 25,89,682 with a single-day spike of 63,490 infections, while the total number of recoveries rose to 18,62,258  pushing the recovery rate to 71.91 per cent on Sunday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll due to coronavirus infection climbed to 49,980 with 944 people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed. India has been reporting over 60,000 cases daily since August 7, barring August 11 when the country registered 53,601 new cases of the infection. The case fatality rate has declined to 1.93 per cent. There are 6,77,444 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country presently which comprise 26.16 per cent of the total caseload in the country. India had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7. According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 2,93,09,703 samples have been tested up to August 15 with 7,46,608 samples being tested on Saturday. Of the 944 fresh deaths reported, 322 are from Maharashtra, 127 from Tamil Nadu, 114 from Karnataka, 87 from Andhra Pradesh, 58 each from West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, 40 from Punjab, 19 from Gujarat, 16 from Rajasthan, 13 from Madhya Pradesh, 10 each from Delhi and Haryana. Nine fatalities have been reported from Odisha and Telangana, eight from Bihar, seven each from Assam, Jammu and Kashmir and Kerala, five each from Goa and Tripura, four each from Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand while Ladakh has registered one fatality. Of the total 49,980 deaths, Maharashtra has reported the maximum at 19,749, followed by 5,641 in Tamil Nadu, 4,188 in Delhi, 3,831 in Karnataka, 2,765 in Gujarat, 2,562 in Andhra Pradesh, 2,393 in Uttar Pradesh, 2,377 in West Bengal and 1,094 in Madhya Pradesh. So far, 862 people have died of COVID-19 in Rajasthan. (editor@dailyworld.in)