Updated: September 14, 2020 12:34:31 pm
Street vendors selling fruit wait for customers in Bengaluru (PTI)
Coronavirus cases in India: Bengaluru, which was the least affected Indian center until the end of June, has become the city with the third highest number of cases in the country. On Sunday, the total number of confirmed infections in Bengaluru surpassed that of Mumbai and is now only behind Pune and Delhi.
Bangalore now has more than 1.7 billion people who have been infected with the virus so far. Mumbai, once the city with the highest number of infected people, has just over 1.69 lakh of confirmed infections.
The epidemic in Karnataka has started to grow in a big way only since July. At the end of June, Bengaluru had nearly 4,500 confirmed cases, when Mumbai was approaching 80,000. But there has been rapid growth in Bengaluru after that. The city accounts for almost 40 percent of the 4.59 lakh of cases in Karnataka. It also has more than 43,000 active cases, the largest of any city other than Pune, which has more than 75,000.
Over the past few days, Bengaluru has reported around 3,500 daily cases.
Over the past few days, Bengaluru has reported around 3,500 daily cases. Only Pune and Delhi have reported more. Even Mumbai has witnessed a gradual increase in its daily number over the past two weeks. By the third week of August, the new daily detections in Mumbai had dropped below 1,000, but has started to rise after that. In fact, last week, the new detection hit an all-time high of 2,371.
Municipal officials in Mumbai say increased testing, increased interaction by people during the recently concluded Ganesh festival, and easing of lockdown restrictions, were behind the increase in numbers. Mumbai has started testing between 12,000 and 15,000 samples every day. Many other cities, including Pune, are testing many more.
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Top 10 states with the maximum case load
Meanwhile, Bihar, which until recently was growing at a very rapid rate, has slowed down considerably in recent weeks. In fact, its current daily growth rate of 1.01% is the slowest in the country. Among the top ten states with the highest number of cases, it is Odisha that is adding the numbers at the fastest rate right now, growing at 2.38 percent per day. On Sunday, the state reported more than 4,000 new cases for the first time. He has over 1.55 lakh of confirmed cases now.
But overall, the fastest growing state is Chhattisgarh, whose daily growth rate is more than five percent. Kerala, Punjab, and Haryana are other states with a large number of cases with high growth rates at the moment.
More than 92,000 new infections were detected across the country on Sunday
On Sunday, more than 92,000 new infections were detected throughout the country, the fifth consecutive day that this figure exceeds 90,000. The total number of confirmed infections in India has now reached 48.46 lakh, of which 37.80 lakh, or 78 percent, have recovered from the disease. The death toll is approaching 80,000 now.
Tamil Nadu now has more than five lakhs of people who have so far been infected with the virus. It is the third state in the country, after Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, to cross that number. On Sunday, West Bengal hit the two lakh mark, with the addition of more than 3,200 new infections.
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