However, such a trend need not always hold. A similar slowing trend in the whole of mid-August did not continue in early September.
India now has 91,149 covid-related deaths as of Thursday morning, after a 10% weekly jump, latest data from the Union health ministry showed.Kerala and Uttarakhand crossed 500 deaths each, while Jammu and Kashmir became the 14th state to cross 1,000 deaths.
Karnataka’s toll went past 8,000. Uttar Pradesh now has the fifth highest toll after it crossed Delhi.As many as 21 states have more than 10,000 active cases now, but all except Chhattisgarh and Jammu and Kashmir have crossed the 70% mark in recovery rate, or the share of patients who have been discharged.