India has reported 14,425 cases and 488 deaths till Saturday.

Among the cases and deaths, 991 new COVID-19 cases and 43 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.

Of the total fatalities, 201 was reported from Maharashtra, followed by Madhya Pradesh with 69 fatalities.

Maharashtra remains the worst-hit state with total number of positive cases rising to 3,323, followed by Delhi with 1,707, Tamil Nadu 1,323 and Madhya Pradesh 1,310, according to the Ministry data.

The doubling rate of COVID-19 cases in India has dropped to 6.2 days over the past week, as compared to three days before the lockdown was imposed last month by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government said on Friday.