nIndia saw a new single-day high of over 4 lakh new cases and 3,521 deaths as coronavirus situation exploded in Karnataka with the States registering 48,296 new cases and 217 deaths in 24 hours till Friday midnight.
Once again Kerala, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu West Bengal remained the prime driver of the nation’s Covid count
Bengaluru urban alone accounted for more than 50 per cent of the cases on Friday, with 26,756 fresh infections. The day also saw 14,884 getting discharged after treatment.
In Maharashtra, on a day when 44,000-odd Covid-19 tests were done, the test positivity percentage came down to a single digit in Mumbai, even as the bed availability went up to 5,725 in 172 hospitals across the metropolis.
Mumbai Municipal Commissioner IS Chahal said on Friday: “At a time when we are doing 44,000 Covid-19 tests in the metropolis, our positivity has come down to a single digit. We are perhaps the only in India with single digit positivity with high testing....Of the new infections reported today, 85 per cent were asymptomatic”.