NEW DELHI: While there is one more week to go, the month of May has already seen about 1 lakh and 3,000 Covid deaths. This is higher than the maximum monthly deaths reported by any other country. As per WHO, in January this year, the USA reported 98,293 deaths — the highest for the country and now the world’s second-highest monthly deaths after India. Similarly, Brazil reported 84,319 deaths in April which was the world’s third-highest. So far, May has seen 3.2 lakh deaths globally of which over 32% have come from India. The day’s overall tally of 2,11,106 fresh cases and 3,291 deaths was in line with the weekly trend. So far, both cases and deaths have been declining since reaching their respective peaks. It has now been 51 days since cases have crossed 1 lakh mark. For 30 consecutive days, India has seen over 3,000 daily deaths. State-wise analysis of the data shows that Tamil Nadu’s case count of 33,764 was the country’s highest. The figures were 28,798 for Kerala, 26,811 for Karnataka and 24,752 for Maharashtra. No other states reported over 20,000 cases. There are 16 states and UTs where fresh cases reported in the past 24 hours were between 1,000 and 10,000. This list includes Assam, Punjab, Rajasthan, Telangana, UP, and J&K. The death toll crossed 100 mark in ten states while another four reported between 90 and 100 deaths. The toll was highest for Karnataka that reported 530 deaths in the past 24 hours. For UP, Punjab, West Bengal and Kerala the death toll was between 150 and 20.
India sees 1 lakh Covid toll in May
