India reports 4529 deaths, highest so far

Wednesday, 19 May 2021Newsdesk

India reported 4529 deaths on Tuesday, the highest so far in a day. Maharashtra reported over 1,300 deaths, nearly half of which were more than a week old. Karnataka reported 525 deaths, while Tamil Nadu added 364 to the toll. Over 2.67 lakh fresh cases were reported in the country. While Tamil Nadu recorded more than 33,000 cases, Karnataka and Kerala both reported over 30,000 cases. Maharashtra, which was leading the list for months reported the country’s fourth highest case count with 28,438 new infections. The active cases in the country dropped further to 32.26 lakh.

New Delhi, 19 May 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, the government on Tuesday said that around 200 districts have been reporting a decline in cases for the last two weeks and, after consistently increasing for the past 13 weeks, the country’s overall case positivity has registered a decline over the past seven days. The “pandemic curve is stabilising”, and the reproduction number (R) has now fallen below 1, Dr V K Paul, head of India’s Covid-19 Task Force, said. “This means the pandemic is shrinking overall,” he said.

Source -The Indian Express