Aditi tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 7
Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and UP are contributing most of India’s total and active burden of COVID cases and deaths.
Six out of 10 of the total 4,294,613 COVID-19 cases, more than six out of 10 of all 882 542 currently active cases, and seven out of 10 of the total 71,642 deaths come from these five states.
New data from the Ministry of Health shows that these five looks contribute 60 percent of the total cases with Maharashtra at the top with 21.6 percent, followed by Andhra Pradesh (11.8 percent), Tamil Nadu ( 11.0 percent), Karnataka (9.5 percent) and Uttar Pradesh with 6.3 personal computers.
Maharashtra also contributed 26.76 percent of active cases in the country, followed by Andhra Pradesh (11.30 percent), Karnataka (11.25 percent), Uttar Pradesh (6.98 percent) and Tamil Nadu (5.83 percent).
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These five states currently contribute 62 percent – 32,50,429 – of the total currently active cases.
In the past 24 hours, Andhra Pradesh recorded the highest recoveries with 11,915 newly recovered cases. Karnataka and Maharashtra saw 9,575 and 7,826 recoveries, while Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh saw 5,820 and 4,779 new recoveries, respectively. These five states together contributed 57 percent of the recoveries in the past 24 hours.
On a continuous upward trajectory, the total recovered cases from India has now exceeded 32.5 lakh, with 69,564 patients discharged in the last 24 hours.
This has resulted in the recovery rate reaching 77.31 percent.
The fatality rate in India is now 1.70 percent.
Meanwhile, daily cases increased by 90,802 today while daily recoveries increased by 69,564.
The gap is worrisome, the sources said.
