Mint Covid Tracker: At current pace, India could reach 2 mn cases in 10 days
Live MintIndia’s total coronavirus case tally is set to hit the 2 million mark in 10 days’ time if it continues to rise at the same pace as since early July, an analysis of the latest health ministry data showed. Active cases, or the number of patients still under treatment, are rising at a much faster rate recently: the jump was 27% in the last seven days, compared to 25% in the week-ago period. Overall, India has 485,114 active cases as of Monday morning and 32,771 deaths have been attributed to the infection, the health ministry data showed. Of the 12 states with the most active cases, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have reported the biggest percentage jumps in deaths. Among states with more than 10,000 cases so far, Tamil Nadu and Kerala 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.