India daily COVID cases continue to rise |
India on June 20th recorded 12,781 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, while the active caseload reached 76,700, a statement of the health ministry said. The daily positivity rate reached 4.32 percent while the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.62 percent. The weekly Covid-19 cases in the country surged to a record high in four months with around 80,000 new infections recorded in the last seven days, a 62 percent rise registered over the previous 7-day tally. The death due to the virus in the week ending June 19th remained low at 93, which was more than the combined toll in the last two weeks. The new cases in the last seven days (June 13-19), was 79,250, while the tally in the previous seven days was 48,769. The seven-day tally has been highest since February 21-27, when the infections reached 86,000. The country has been registering increasing cases in the last 30 days, but the last two weeks have seen an accelerated surge. The fresh cases in the country rose in most of the states and Union Territories in the last seven days. Maharashtra state , reporting the maximum cases, showed 4,004 fresh COVID-19 cases, including 2,087 in Mumbai, and one fatality. The state reported 25,172 weekly cases, up from 17,380 in the previous week. A day earlier the state had reported 3,883 cases and two COVID-19 fatalities. Maharashtra is now left with 23,746 active cases after 3,085 patients were discharged on June 19th, taking the tally of recoveries to 77,64,117. On the other hand, Kerala state recorded 2,786 fresh COVID-19 infections, a slight dip from the over 3,000 cases it was reported in the last five days. The caseload is 66,01,884 to date. The weekly cases reached 20,500 in the state while the active cases increased to 22,278.
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