Bengaluru: For the first time since March, less than 1,000 deaths from Covid-19 were reported in August, in line with the decline in the previous week.
The average daily death in August is 24, which is around 51% less than the number in July, and 87% lower than June.
To understand the magnitude of the decline, the contrast of these numbers with May, the deadliest month so far.
In that month, Karnataka lost at least 437 people on average every day – an increase of 1,700% of the number of victims in August.
On September 3, the State has recorded 37,380 Covid-19 deaths at the level of 68 deaths per day above two Covid waves since March 2020.
At 1.3, Karnataka has a second worst case fatality case, which accounts for 43% of all deaths in the country The section, has seen a decline in death in August: in 121, it was in fact, lower than March (140).
In August, the capital saw nearly four deaths per day compared to almost eight days in July.
Instead, the figure was 76 in June and 225 in May.
Compared to May, the average death of everyday in August was almost 100% lower.
On September 3, the total death in Bengaluru reached 16,012, namely 29 deaths a day for two Covid waves since March 2020.
Besides Bengaluru, seven districts have a toll exceeding 1,000.
MySuru led the table with 2,364 deaths, followed by Ballari (1,689), Dakshina Kannada (1,583), Dharwad (1,299), Hassan (1,227), Tumakuru (1,075) and Shivamogga (1,075).
The case fatality rate among the top public health experts has shown from the top of the first wave that the response strategy must focus on maintaining a minimum death possible.
But Karnataka, like many other states – Maharashtra became an exception because it had high death in both waves – missed it during the second wave.
Together, the death rate of the overall case of Karnataka (CFR), the percentage of deaths among those infected, almost 1.3.
Among countries with five most overall infections – Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh – Karnataka together have the second worst CFR along with Tamil Nadu.
Kerala with CFR 0.5 is ranked first, followed by Andhra (0.6), Maharashtra is the worst with the death rate of 2.1, followed by Karnataka and TN.
CFR in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are 1.3.