India Coronavirus cases, deaths the numbers of update: Covid-19 Tracker

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While India continues to add more and more the number of novel Coronavirus infections each day, with a clear slowdown seen in some of the earlier concern of the states.

Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh has more than 6,000 confirmed cases of each and they are contributing to a significant number of new cases, but there is a noticeable decline in their growth rates for the last couple of weeks. Their growth rates have fallen comfortably below the national level.

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Gujarat, in particular, has been showing an interesting trend. In the last three weeks, the number of new infections reported by the state each day have fallen very well into the 300-400 bracket. Only an increased and unusual was observed during this period, the 16 of May, when the state had reported more than 1,000 cases, but that was because it had added more than 700 cases they were discovered during a special week of the unit to detect infection among those who are considered high-risk groups.

Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh have also been reporting very stable numbers, between 150 and 300 infections each day.

The increase in the number of new infections is, therefore, driven by Maharashtraand for the moment, by Tamil Nadu and Delhi. Maharashtra, which had about one-fifth of India all the number of cases of two months ago, now represents more than a third of all confirmed cases of infection in the country. In the last ten days, however, has contributed more than 40 percent of the India of new infections.

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For the last week, Maharashtra has been the addition of more than 2,000 cases each day. The Saturday, had 47,190 confirmed infections, which was more than 36 percent of the total national number of cases of nearly 1.3 lakh.

Tamil Nadu, by their standards, there have also been reports of a large number of cases during the last few days, and is now comfortably ahead of Gujarat, as well as the state with the second highest number of cases. Tamil Nadu has 15,512 cases on Saturday.

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While Gujarat has shown a decline in the growth rate of new infections, there is no let-up in the number of people who die in the state. Gujarat has one of the highest case-fatality rate in the country. Until now, 829 people infected with the new Coronavirus have died in the state. In comparison, the state of Tamil Nadu, which now has a larger number of cases, has recorded the death of only 103 people. Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, on the other hand, have been reporting much lower numbers of deaths by now of what they were doing for a couple of days.

In Bihar, when the infection the numbers have been increasing very quickly in the last couple of weeks, there has been too many new Coronavirus-related deaths. It has been reported only 11 deaths until now, while the state of Andhra Pradesh, which has a similar number of cases, has had 56 deaths.

Chhattisgarh is the only state with more than 100 confirmed cases of which has not yet been reported, nor a single death until now.

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