Daily cases have remained below the 80,000 mark for the eighth consecutive day. On Saturday, India recorded 74,205 cases (with data from Jammu and Kashmir yet to come at press time), while active cases remained below nine lakhs for the second day in a row.
Saturday also marked eight consecutive days of deaths below the 1,000 mark. With 917 new casualties on Saturday, the lowest figure in the past five days, India’s cumulative figure reached 108,305 deaths so far. Among the states, Kerala reported the highest number of cases on Saturday adding 11,755 new cases.
Maharashtra reported 11,416 new cases, while Karnataka added 10,513 cases, with these three states reporting more than 10,000 cases on Saturday.
Orissa reported its 1,000th death from Covid on Saturday, the 16th state to cross this mark. With 978 deaths reported so far, Kerala’s death toll will soon exceed 1,000 deaths. Apart from Kerala, Bihar, Assam and Jharkhand are the only large states that have reported fewer than 1,000 deaths so far.
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While daily cases in Kerala continue to rise, the situation is improving in Maharashtra, the state that has so far reported the highest number of confirmed cases and deaths. For the eighth day in a row, it reported fewer than 15,000 cases.
So far, four states have reported more than half a million cases of Covid-19. Among them, daily cases have remained above 10,000 in Maharashtra and Karnataka, while Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have managed to reduce their daily additions of cases to just over 5,000. With three deaths per 100 infections, the fatality rate (CFR) is highest in Punjab.
The CFR for both Gujarat and Maharashtra is between 2-3%, while for all other states the death rate has remained below 2% and has fallen to 1.5% nationally.
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