Updated: October 14, 2020 11:46:04 am
A worker in PPE equipment disinfects the lobby seats of a movie theater in Mumbai on Tuesday, October 13, 2020 (PTI Photo: Mitesh Bhuvad)
Coronavirus cases in India numbers explained: The nearly month-long downward trend in the detection of new infections has ensured that, for the first time since the epidemic began in India, the growth rate of coronavirus cases has fallen below one percent a day. The seven-day compound daily growth rate, for the country as a whole, fell to 0.99 percent on Tuesday.
At its peak, the growth rate of coronavirus cases had exceeded 7 percent per day in the first week of May, but there has been a steady decline after that. This process has accelerated in the last month, which has seen a considerable decrease in daily numbers, from a peak of approximately 98,000 cases to less than 70,000 cases at this time.
Daily New Cases of Covid-19 in India.
In fact, only about 55,000 new cases were detected on Monday. That was the lowest number since August 17. While some of it could be attributed to Sunday’s low tests, daily numbers have been steadily falling, which has also led to a very welcome decline in active cases. In less than a month, active cases have dropped by almost two lakh.
Around 63,000 new cases were detected on Tuesday, which again, for a non-Monday, was the lowest since the third week of August. New detections have remained lower than the number of recoveries for 11 consecutive days.
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As of now, three of the ten states with a maximum number of cases (Karnataka, West Bengal and Kerala) have growth rates of more than one percent per day. Kerala, with a growth rate of 3.26%, is still the fastest growing state in the country at the moment. On Tuesday, it added more than 8,700 new cases to cross the three lakh figure. The state, which had received the first infection of the new coronavirus in the country, had taken nine months to register the first lakh of cases. But in the last month, more than two billion new cases were added to the state.
Top 10 states with maximum case load.
Kerala has the highest number of active cases in the country after Maharashtra and Karnataka. Its number of cases is now the seventh largest in the country and is likely to surpass Delhi in the coming days.
West Bengal also crossed the three lakh mark on Tuesday. The state has added more than a lakh of cases in the last month.
The biggest drop in the growth rate has occurred in the case of Maharashtra, which has now started reporting fewer than 10,000 cases per day. About a month earlier, daily cases in the state had started to hit about 25,000. In the last month, its growth rate has decreased from 2.22% a day to less than 0.75% today. In fact, some days in the past week, including Tuesday, Maharashtra’s daily figures have not been the highest in the country. Kerala has reported a higher number of cases. Never since the end of March has any state reported more cases than Maharashtra in a single day.
With recoveries outpacing new cases for most of the last month, the recovery rate has improved to 87 percent now. Of the 72.39 lakh people who have so far been infected with the disease, more than 63 lakh have recovered. The death count has risen to 1.1 lakh now.
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