New Delhi: Kerala reported more than 20,000 fresh Covid-19 cases to run the fifth day when the trend rose in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka continued, when India recorded more than 42,000 new cases of viruses on Saturday.
For the fifth consecutive day, the indian daily count lived for 40,000 marks as 42,052 recorded on Saturday.
Kerala contributed 20,624 new cases, while Maharashtra recorded 6,959.
The Tamil Nadu daily number rose slightly to run the third day.
The state reported 1,986 new cases, up from 1,947 on Friday.
This increase is only gradual but this has violated a 69-day trend from a decrease that is not disconnected in everyday case.
Karnataka registered 1,987 new cases, up from 1,890 on Friday.
India recorded 540 deaths on Saturday.
The death of the virus has also seen the uptick this week (not including the old fatality added to the toll last week).
The 540 victim on Friday was the fifth consecutive day when death remained above 500.
Meanwhile, 12,44,696 new Covid cases were recorded in July, a decrease of 45% of the total last month of more than 22.3 lakh.
Compared to May, the peak of the second wave, the number of July fell to only 14%.
However, for the first time since the peak of May, cases added to the highlands and then began to increase marginally in July.
The case count in the last two weeks in July was almost the same as the calculation in the first two weeks of this month.