With 26,506 new coronavirus cases, India's tally reaches 7,93,802

India on Friday reported its highest single-day spike of 26,506 new coronavirus cases and 475 deaths. With this, the total count of COVID-19 cases in India reached 7,93,802 on Friday, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Out of the total number of cases, 2,76,685 are active, 4,95,513 have been cured/discharged/migrated and 21,604 have died so far due to the infection.

With as many as 2,30,599 COVID-19 cases, Maharashtra continues to remain the worst-affected state, followed by Tamil Nadu (1,26,581) and Delhi (1,07,051).

Meanwhile, 2,83,659 samples were tested for coronavirus on Thursday, taking the total number of samples tested up to July 9 to 1,10,24,491, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

On Thursday, the government reaffirmed that there's no community transmission in India, adding the cases per million in the country are significantly less than the global average.

A Group of Ministers (GoM) meeting was chaired by Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Thursday at Nirman Bhawan in the national capital. The meeting was called to review the coronavirus situation in India.

"We are seeing on TV that India has become the third most COVID-19 affected country. It is necessary to see this in correct perspective, we are a country with the second highest population in the world. Our cases per million are 538, while world average is 1,453," Dr Vardhan said.

"During our discussions today, experts again stated that there is no community transmission in India. There may be some localised pockets where transmission is high but as a country, there is no community transmission," he added.