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Daily Covid cases in India top 7,000, sharpest rise since January wave

Daily Covid cases in India top 7,000, sharpest rise since January wave
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NEW DELHI: In the sharpest rise in India's Covid-19 infections since the third wave in January, daily cases topped 7,000 for the first time in 99 days and the 7-day average doubled in less than 10 days. India reported 7,230 cases on Wednesday, with Maharashtra and Kerala accounting for nearly 70% of the tally. Thursday's count is likely to cross 7,500. Delhi posted 622 cases on Thursday, highest since May 14.However, deaths remain very low.
The daily test positivity rate (TPR) - the percentage of positive samples out of the total tests - rose to 2.3% on Wednesday, the highest since February 15 this year.

Deaths, however, continue to remain low. India had recorded 24 fresh deaths in the week ending Sunday and has logged 11 so far this week, six of which were reported on Thursday (with several states yet to post the day's data). These figures do not include deaths from earlier months reconciled with the data during this period. As per the Union home ministry website, all deaths reported by Kerala in the past few weeks are old fatalities.
With Thursday's case count likely to cross 7,500, the seven-day average of daily cases is set to go past 5,000 (to 5,200), having doubled from 2,663 nine days ago on May 31.
Maharashtra reported 2,813 fresh cases on Thursday, its highest since February 15 this year. Mumbai alone accounted for 1,702 cases, the highest single-day tally reported by any city since at least early March. Kerala's numbers come a day late. The state had logged 2,271 cases on Wednesday.

Cases were also rising across all states and UTs in south India, with Karnataka posting 471 new cases on Thursday, Tamil Nadu 185, and Telangana 122.

Delhi, where cases had been declining following a spurt in late April and early May, has again started reporting a rise. The capital posted 622 cases on Thursday, its highest single-day count since May 14. There were signs of a spike in neighbouring Haryana, where daily cases touched a 27-day high of 348 cases on Thursday, and UP reported 157 cases, with the seven-day average rising in the last three days.
Infections were also rising in Gujarat (117 cases on Thursday), Bengal (95), Goa (67), Rajasthan (71, 2 deaths), Chandigarh (25), Uttarakhand (32) and Himachal Pradesh (33).
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