COVID-19 cases in India continues to surge uncontrollably as a total of 78,512 fresh cases reported in the past 24-hours, the union health ministry said.

With this, national tally mounted to 3,621,245, the union health ministry further revealed on Monday.

โ€œWith 971 more deaths, the toll has climbed to 64,469 so far,โ€ the ministry added

It may be mentioned here that of the total confirmed cases, 7,81,975 are active cases, while a total of 2,77,48,01 have recovered from the virus so far.

With 60,868 recoveries in a day, the recovery rate stood at 76.61 per cent while the fatality rate is 1.79 per cent, the health ministry further informed.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra continues to be the worst-hit state and the total COVID-19 cases in the state stand at 7,64,281 with a total of 24,103 deaths.

Maharashtra is followed by Tamil Nadu with 4,15,590 COVID-19 cases and 7,137 deaths.

Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, West Bengal, and Bihar come next.

COVID-19 cases have breached the 1 lakh mark in Assam as well and the total cases detected in the state so far is 1,05,774.