India’s Covid-19 tally witnessed a major upward trend today with Kerala making the single-largest addition, followed by Maharashtra. The surge in the number of daily infections has the administration deeply worried even as the pandemic situation seemed to have improved considerably in the country.
The Union Health and Family Welfare message showed that among 46,164 new infections logged yesterday, Kerala registered 31,445 cases and Maharashtra registered 5,031. This corresponded to 3,33,725 active cases in India, 1,70,292 in Kerala and 50,183 in Maharashtra.
An official report stated that among other states where active cases continued to remain high are Karnataka (19,318), Tamil Nadu (20,370) and Andhra Pradesh (14,601). However, none of these states saw a major spike in fresh infections — Karnataka (1,224), Tamil Nadu (1,573) and Andhra (1,601).
However, in Maharashtra Covid cases breached the 5,000 marks after a gap of five days, with the state recording 5,031 fresh cases and 216 infection-related deaths. Health officials said people were gradually giving up Covid-appropriate behaviour and if the current trend continued, a third wave of the pandemic was not far behind.
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