Worrying trend! Kerala reported more than half of India's total Covid cases in past seven days
With Kerala triggering concerns over rising Covid-19 cases, the Centre on Tuesday said that the state reported more than half of the total infections recorded in the country in the past seven days.
Addressing a joint press briefing, an official informed that 37 districts across nine states, including Kerala (11 districts) and Tamil Nadu (seven districts), were showing rising trend in daily new COVID-19 cases over the last two weeks. The official said that as many as 44 districts across 11 states and union territories reported a weekly positivity rate of more than 10 per cent.
Kerala reported 51.51 per cent of the total COVID-19 cases recorded in India in past seven days, he said.
The Centre further said that the reproduction number was more than 1 in five states -- Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
The increasing trend of reproduction number, that denotes the spread of Covid-19, in some states is cause of concern, although there is stabilisation in COVID-19 cases in the country, it said, adding there are significant reasons to enforce pandemic control measures.
The government said Delta Plus variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in 86 samples in India, including 34 in Maharashtra, as on August 9.
India logged 28,204 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 147 days, taking the total tally of cases to 3,19,98,158, while the active cases fell to 3,88,508, the lowest in 139 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.
The death toll has climbed to 4,28,682 with 373 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
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