COVID-19 cases in India crosses over 100,000 mark⁠— Maharashtra alone accounts for 40% of new cases

• India recorded 4,970 new coronavirus cases on May 18 and the total count of COVID-19 infections jumped to 1,01,139.
• According to the Health Ministry, of the total, 58,802 are active cases while at least 39,173 people have been cured of the disease.
• At least 134 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, taking the total fatality count to 3,163.

With 4,970 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, India's total count of COVID-19 infections jumped to 101,139, the Union Health Ministry data revealed on Tuesday (May 19).

According to the Health Ministry, of the total, 58,802 are active cases while at least 39,173 people have been cured of the disease.


At least 134 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, taking the total fatality count to 3,163.

In Maharashtra, the Covid-19 cases climbed to 35,058, followed by Gujarat which has 11,745 cases and Tamil Nadu 11,760 cases so far. National capital's tally crossed the 10,000-mark on Monday and stood at 10,054, according to the Health Ministry data.

States which have reported more than 4000 cases are Rajasthan at 5,507, Madhya Pradesh at 5,236 and Uttar Pradesh at 4,605.

Telangana's tally rises to 1,592, 41 new cases reported

Telangana on Monday reported 41 new cases of COVID-19, taking the state's tally to 1592.

While 26 people were tested positive in Greater Hyderabad, 12 migrants were also found infected. Medchal district too reported three cases. With 12 more migrants testing positive, the total number of migrants infected rose to 69.

The death toll remained unchanged at 34 as no deaths were reported on Monday. According to the director of public health and family welfare, ten people have been discharged from the hospital on Monday. With this, the cumulative number of people discharged rose to 1,002. The official said the number of active cases now stands at 556.

As the movement of people has eased following relaxations in the lockdown by the Centre, the state is dealing with a large number of arrivals of passengers from other states. These people are reaching the state through trains or by private vehicles. A large number of migrants tested positive so far belongs to Maharashtra, the worst affected state in the country.

Assam reports two more Covid-19 deaths and 18 new cases

Two Covid-19 patients died in Assam on Monday (May 18) taking the state's death toll to four, while 18 more tested positive in the past 24 hours raising the state's tally to 115, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

According to Sarma, a 71-year-old cancer patient, who had returned from Mumbai recently, died at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH).

Sarma said that another person had died at GMCH on Monday night prior to detection of coronavirus. Of the 18 fresh cases, ten people tested positive in Guwahati followed by four in Golaghat district, two in Cachar district and one each in Nagaon and Jorhat districts. Of the 18 new cases, two had come from Mumbai and one from Bihar.

Out of the 115 positive cases found so far in Assam, 68 are active cases, 41 people have been discharged from hospitals, and two cases migrated to other states.

Big rise in coronavirus cases belies MP govt claims

Defying the government's claims of containment, Madhya Pradesh became the sixth state in the country to cross 5,000 corona positive cases. With a substantial 259 cases on Monday (May 18), the tally went up to 5,236.

Besides the new hotspot of Burhanpur which has jumped from one to 152 in just two weeks, the four old ones — Indore, Bhopal, Ujjain and Jabalpur — have maintained a steady rise in the positive cases. Indore stands at the 7th spot in the country with 2,565 cases as on Monday. Capital Bhopal topped the 1,000 mark on Monday with 38 fresh cases. Ujjain (343), Jabalpur (182), Khandwa (165), Dhar (106) are the other spots with over 100 cases.

The overall death toll in the state is 252 with Indore recording 100 as on Monday. The consolation is the slowing down of fatalities. There were four corona deaths on Monday and five on Sunday.

The claims about lockdown putting brakes on the spread of the virus are not borne out by the figures through the three phases of containment so far.

Maharashtra gets 2,033 new Covid-19 cases, records 51 deaths

Maharashtra on Monday recorded its second-highest surge of 2,033 Covid-19 cases - after Monday's 2,347 - and notched 51 deaths on the first day of lockdown 4.0, officials said here.

This comes to a staggering surge of around 85 new cases every hour and a death rate of roughly two fatalities every hour in the state.

With 51 fatalities - down from the previous high of 63 notched on May 17 — the state death toll now stands at 1,249, and the total number of coronavirus patients increased from 33,053 to 35,058 on Monday (May 18), after the previous steepest single-day jump of 2,347 recorded on Sunday.

The Health Department said of the total number of cases, 25,392 were active cases, up by 1,231 over Sunday's figures.

Of the total deaths, 23 were recorded in Mumbai alone, besides one from Bihar, while the city's toll increased from Sunday's 734 to 757, and the number of Covid-19 positive patients here shot up by 1,185 cases to touch 22,335.

Gujarat's total corona cases at 11,746; death toll 694

Gujarat's coronavirus cases climbed to 11,746, and the death toll reached 694 with an addition of 366 fresh cases and 35 deaths registered on Monday (May 18).

Out of the state's total positive cases found on Monday, Ahmedabad continued to lead with 263, followed by Surat at 33, Vadodara 22, Gandhinagar 12, Patan 7, Valsad 6 and Dahod and Bhavnagar with four each, Aravalli, Kutch and Junagadh reporting 3 cases each, Mahisagar 2 and Kheda, Rajkot, Surendranagar and Sabarkantha with one each.

With one of the highest mortality rates of 5.9, Gujarat's death toll, rapidly climbing towards 700 with 694 deaths, is a worry for the health authorities. The month of May has been very grim for corona patients, as the state is reporting over 20 deaths daily. A total of 480 people, out of the total 694, have succumbed to the virus during these 18 days of May.

Monday saw yet another 35 patients succumbing to the dreaded virus, out of which Ahmedabad had the highest casualties at 31. Two males from Surat and one male each from Patan and Bharuch also succumbed to the virus. Out of the total 35 deceased, 13 patients did not have any comorbidity.

Till date, out of the total 694 deaths, 555 people have died in Ahmedabad alone (almost 80%), followed by 53 in Surat, 32 in Vadodara, eight each in Bhavnagar and Anand and six each in Gandhinagar and Panchmahals.

Here are the latest number of cases across states as per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare website.


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