New Delhi: Sharp surge in Covid-19 infection at Kerala Post Onam sent Indian cases on the week ending on Sunday enlarging to eight-week highs, with the southern state alone calculating 66% of all cases in this country.
India recorded more than 2.9 lakh cases of fresh covid in a week (August 23-29), 32% leap from Tally in the previous seven days.
This is the highest number of weekly infections since June 28 to 4 weeks when 3.05 lakh cases are recorded.
Kerala itself reported more than 1.9 lakh cases, a large increase of 55% of the previous week’s calculation of 1.25 lakh.
This is the highest number of infections in the state in 14 weeks since May 16-23 and the highest in the state of India in 13 weeks.
Not because the early days of pandemic had a single state that contributed two-thirds of all Covid cases in this country in a week.
That Kerala at this time seems to be in the league itself can be measured from the fact that there is no neighbor of the state – Karnataka and Tamil Nadu – have reported a significant number of amounts of this week.
The only other big country where the weekly Covid numbers seem to have increased are Maharashtra, which records a marginal increase of less than 1%.
Kerala, meanwhile, also became the second country in this country after Maharashtra recorded more than 40 cases of Lakh Covid so far.
Kerala crosses a gloomy milestone on Sunday, when the country records 29,836 new cases.
Kaseload total Maharashtra more than 64.5 lakh.
India recorded a 10.5% increase in death for a week.
There were 3,439 deaths in a period that contradicted 3,111 in the previous week.
Meanwhile, India recorded more than 40,000 cases of everyday for the fifth consecutive day, with the calculation of Sunday at 43,399 (with Jharkhand figures had not arrived).
That day saw 373 deaths while the number of active cases rose by around 7,000 to almost 3.8 lakh.
Of these, more than 2.1 lakh was in Kerala.