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Updated: May 20, 2020 12:33:07 pm
Narayani, 70, and her daughter Krishna wait outside the Guru Nanak Dev Stadium in Ludhiana, where they undergo medical examinations before boarding a special shramik train to Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh. (Express photo: Gurmeet Singh)
Every day since Sunday, India has detected more than 5,000 new cases of new Coronavirus infections. This appears to have become the new normal for the 3,500 to 3,800 cases that were reported every day for about a week before that. On Tuesday, more than 5,200 new cases were discovered, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in India to more than 1.05 lakh.
One of the reasons for the increase in the number of cases that are detected every day is the continuous load of continuous expansion. A higher number of basal cases will lead to a greater number of new infections every day, even if there is no sudden increase. Thus, while the absolute number of new infections has steadily increased, the growth rate in new cases has remained more or less unchanged. In fact, it has even slowed down in between.
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Another reason for the new cases shooting up could be the impact of announced relaxations in the running of the bulls Large-scale movement of people in recent days has led to the spread of the disease in new populations. This is evidenced by the fact that states like Bihar and Odisha, which are receive large numbers of workers Returning from other places, they have seen a sharp increase in cases in recent days. Also in other states, people on the go contribute significantly to their daily numbers in the past ten days.
On Tuesday, more than 5,200 new cases were discovered, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in India to more than 1.05 lakh.
But, the increase in new infections is also due to improved testing. India has been testing more and more every day, and it is well established that as more tests are carried out, more cases will be detected. This is because the majority of infected people are asymptomatic, which means they show no symptoms of the disease, and can only be detected by testing. But they are just as likely to infect others as those with symptoms. That is why experts and scientists continue to emphasize the need for more evidence.
India’s test numbers have been increasing steadily, but on Sunday, for the first time, more than one lakh of samples were analyzed in a single day. It was followed by 1.08 lakh tests on Monday. India has so far tested more than 2.5 million samples.
India Test Numbers
| As reported in | Total number of tests | Testing in previous 24 hours. |
| May 8 | 1,437,788 | 80,375 |
| May 9 | 1,523,213 | 85,425 |
| May 10 | 1,609,037 | 85,824 |
| May 11 | 1,673,688 | 64,651 |
| May 12 | 1,759,579 | 85,891 |
| May 13 | 1,854,250 | 94,671 |
| may 14 | 1,947,041 | 92,791 |
| 15 th of May | 2,039,952 | 92,911 |
| May 16 | 2,134,277 | 94,325 |
| may 17th | 2,227,642 | 93,365 |
| May 18 | 2,302,792 | 75,150 |
| may 19 | 2,404,267 | 101,475 |
| May 20th | 2,512,388 | 108,121 |
The states with the highest number of cases (Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Delhi) are also those with the highest number of tests. On the other hand, it has now emerged that Telangana, which had been reporting surprisingly low growth in numbers for the past month, has one of the poorer records in evidence.
States with maximum tests
| Tamil Nadu | 348,174 |
| Maharashtra | 293,998 |
| Andhra | 258,450 |
| Rajasthan | 254,533 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 182,184 |
| Karnataka | 158,599 |
| Gujarat | 154,674 |
| Delhi | 145,854 |
Telangana, which has more than 1,600 cases, had carried out tests on only 22,842 samples until May 14. This was even lower than the tests conducted by Chhattisgarh and Assam, which had fewer than 100 cases on May 14.
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Top ten states with maximum case load
| State | Total cases | New cases | Deceased |
| Maharashtra | 37,136 | 2,078 | 1,325 |
| Tamil Nadu | 12,448 | 688 | 84 |
| Gujarat | 12,141 | 395 | 719 |
| Delhi | 10,554 | 500 | 166 |
| Rajasthan | 5,732 | 338 | 143 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,465 | 229 | 258 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,926 | 321 | 135 |
| west of bengal | 1,961 | 136 | 250 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,374 | 57 | fifty |
| Punjab | 2,002 | 22 | 38 |
For the sake of comparison, Jammu and Kashmir, which has more than 1,300 cases at the moment, has analyzed more than 96,000 samples. Odisha, who has just crossed 1,000 cases, performed more than one lakh test, while Haryana, who has 964 cases, performed more than 80,000.
Andhra Pradesh, the neighboring state of Telangana, has fewer than 2,400 cases and has carried out more than 2.5 lakh tests.
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