Coronavirus numbers explained: Tamil Nadu now tests more people than Maharashtra

Tamil Nadu has tested many more people and has therefore discovered many more positive cases.

One of the reasons for increase in coronavirus infections seen in Tamil Nadu In the past few days there has been a rapid increase in the number of tests the state performs. Tamil Nadu has tested many more people and has therefore discovered many more positive cases.

On Thursday, the state beat Maharashtra in the total number of tests conducted so far. Tamil Nadu it has now tested 202,436 samples, while Maharashtra, which was leading so far, has tested 202,105. Tamil Nadu’s achievement has been even more commendable considering that the state has approximately 65 percent of Maharashtra’s population. Furthermore, the total cases of coronaviruses in Maharashtra are at least three times more than in Tamil Nadu. Maharashtra had a comfortable advantage in the amount of testing it was carrying out, but Tamil Nadu has stepped up its testing in the past ten days, coinciding with the period when the state has started reporting the highest number of cases all the days.

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In fact, the differences in tests carried out per million inhabitants are even more marked. While Tamil Nadu has analyzed 2806 samples per million of its population, Maharashtra has only performed 1,798. Some other states with large populations have made this metric even worse. Uttar Pradesh, the state with the largest population in India, has tested only 569 per million, while Madhya Pradesh has made 840. west of bengal worse on this list, with only 358 tests per million of its population (see table).

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On Thursday, Tamil Nadu discovered 580 new infections, bringing its total number of confirmed cases to 5409. Maharashtra added 1,216 new cases on Thursday, and it now has 17,974 confirmed infections.

On Thursday, 3,355 cases of Coronavirus infections were reported across the country, 175 fewer than the day before. This is the first time since April 29 that the day’s increase has been less than the previous day’s increase. It had happened on May 5, too, but that was only because May 4 had an unusual spike due to the addition of a large number of cases from previous days that had not been included until then.

Only five states: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Gujarat and Punjab: contributed 2,750 of these cases. India now has 56,224 confirmed cases of Coronavirus infections, of which at least 16,539 have recovered from the disease. The top five states with a maximum number of cases (Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan) represent more than 70 percent of these cases.

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In addition, 93 more deaths were reported across the country on Thursday, bringing the death toll to at least 1870.

Once again, Kerala reported zero new cases. The state count has remained stagnant for the past three days, at 502. In fact, the state has added only seven cases in the past eight days. With 472 infected people who have already recovered from the disease, Kerala has one of the highest recovery rates among states with a significant case load. And with only three deaths so far, it has the lowest death rate.

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