Among major states, the capital has the worst seven-day spike in both cases and deaths, while Maharashtra’s growth rate appears to slow down this week The number of reported coronavirus cases in India rose 9.1 percent over the last two days to 198,706, latest data from the ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) showed.
The death toll reached 5,598, rising 8.4 percent over the same period. Both numbers had risen nearly 9.8 percent each in the preceding 48 hours.Coronavirus The death count in India has nearly doubled in the last seventeen days.
The number of infections is now twice what it was fourteen days ago, and given the rate of growth in this period, could hit the 250,000-mark in five days.