Smaller districts now replacing metro cities as worst hotspots
Live MintThe spread of the coronavirus has slowed down in most metro cities that were until recently the worst hotspots of the outbreak. East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh has reported more cases than Thane, Chennai and Mumbai in the last two days, data compiled by howindialives.com on Tuesday evening showed. Of the 12 states with the most active cases, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala have reported the biggest percentage jumps in deaths as well as active cases in the last seven days. Among states with more than 10,000 cases so far, Delhi and Tamil Nadu have conducted the most tests per million population per day in the last two weeks, and West Bengal and Bihar the fewest, data collected by The Hindu showed. Among the 15 districts with the highest number of new cases in the last 48 hours, the biggest percentage spikes were reported by Bellary in Karnataka, and YSR and East Godavari in Andhra Pradesh.