Updated: October 11, 2020 1:46:48 pm
The last five lakh of cases in India have been added in just eight days, despite the fact that there has been a significant reduction in the number of new cases being reported every day. (Proceedings)
Kerala on Saturday reported the peak number of new coronavirus cases in the country, even higher than Maharashtra. It is the first time since March that a state has reported more cases than Maharashtra in one day.
Kerala detected 11,755 new cases on Saturday, its highest level to date, while the count in Maharashtra fell to an unusually low number of 11,416. Maharashtra’s count on Saturday was the lowest since September, except last Monday, when about 10,000 new cases were detected due to few tests the day before. (Follow live Covid-19 updates here)
Kerala has been in the midst of its worst increase in coronavirus cases, and the state government has said it expected daily numbers to be even higher, with the decline likely to start next month. The state’s health minister, KK Shailaja, had told The Indian Express that the daily figures could go as high as 20,000, although the effort was to contain them within 15,000 per day.
Daily cases since September 16.
The state’s coronavirus numbers are growing at the fastest rate for nearly three weeks. While India has been adding coronavirus cases at a rate of about one percent every day, Kerala’s daily growth rate has been around 3.5 percent.
Meanwhile, the total coronavirus count in India passed the seven million (70 lakh) mark on Saturday, and is now just half a million (5 lakh) behind the United States, where the highest number of people have been infected with the virus. virus so far. . Worldwide, more than 37 million (3.7 crore) people have been infected so far, which means that India has been bearing about a fifth of the global burden of the disease.
Top ten states with the highest case load
| STATE | TOTAL CASES | NEW CASES | TOTAL RECOVERIES | DECEASED |
| Maharashtra | 1,517,434 | 11,416 | 1,255,779 | 40,499 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 750,517 | 5,653 | 697,699 | 6,194 |
| Karnataka | 700,786 | 10,517 | 569,947 | 9,910 |
| Tamil nadu | 651,370 | 5,242 | 597,033 | 10,187 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 433,712 | 3,046 | 387,149 | 6,353 |
| Delhi | 306,559 | 2,866 | 278,812 | 5,740 |
| west bengal | 291,194 | 3,591 | 255,838 | 5,563 |
| Kerala | 279,855 | 11,755 | 182,874 | 1,012 |
| Odisha | 252,239 | 2,546 | 224,273 | 1,075 |
| Telangana | 212,063 | 1,717 | 185,128 | 1,222 |
The last five lakh of cases in India have been added in just eight days, despite the fact that there has been a significant reduction in the number of new cases being reported every day. On Saturday, around 74,000 new cases were detected, while nearly 90,000 people were declared to have recovered, continuing a recent and welcome trend that has seen more people recover from the disease each day than those who find themselves ill.
In many other parts of the world, primarily the United States and Europe, coronavirus numbers have started to rise again. In the UK, for example, daily new detections had fallen to triple digits between June and August, but there has been a big increase since last month. In the last week, the daily numbers have been over 10,000. On October 5 it rose to 23,000, according to the database maintained by the World Health Organization. A similar trend is also being observed in Spain, where more than 10,000 new cases have been discovered in the last three days. There has also been an increase in the numbers in Italy, although comparatively less than in the UK and Spain.
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The United States has detected more than 52,000 new cases in the past two days, its highest level since mid-August. Globally, around 10 lakh of cases have been added in the last three days alone, just over twenty percent of which has been contributed by India.
Within the country, Karnataka became the third state to cross the seven lakh mark in the total number of confirmed infections. Karnataka has the second fastest growing number in the country, only after Kerala. Its case count has risen to more than 1.5 percent a day, and the state has reported more than 10,000 cases in the past five days.
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