This story is from August 4, 2020

Covid-19: Despite spike, Karnataka had fewer cases than Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh in July

Karnataka added more than a lakh Covid-19 cases to its tally in the past four weeks alone, setting daily records along the way, but despite this massive surge, the state reported fewer cases than Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh among states with more than a lakh cases in July.
Covid-19: Despite spike, Karnataka had fewer cases than Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh in July
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BENGALURU: Karnataka added more than a lakh Covid-19 cases to its tally in the past four weeks alone, setting daily records along the way, but despite this massive surge, the state reported fewer cases than Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh among states with more than a lakh cases in July. Delhi was the only state among the top five that reported fewer cases than Karnataka.
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, which had a slow start and had not even crossed the 20,000-mark at the beginning of July, posted their highest daily averages during the month, but it was still less than Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.

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While Karnataka, on average, had 3,512 new cases per day, Delhi had less than this. The other three states had a daily average of more than 4,000 with Maharashtra reporting the most cases every day.
An analysis of the data for the month shows that all the states except Delhi posted the highest number of new cases in the last 10 days of the month — between July 22 and 31, while the national capital had the highest number of cases in the first week.
“While July has been a bad month, we should understand that Karnataka is among the big states in the country with a large metropolis whose density of population makes it difficult to contain the spread without restrictions,” an expert on the state Covid-19 task force said. “Just as Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, our capital city has had the highest burden. Now, recoveries have started to grow, which is a positive sign, and our focus continues to be on curbing the spread.”

Another indication of how alarming the July spike has been for the top five states is borne by the fact that July has accounted for a significant percentage of the total cases in each of these states. As on August 2, Maharashtra had 4.4 lakh cases, while Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and Karnataka had 2.5 lakh, 1.5 lakh, 1.3 lakh and 1.3 lakh cases respectively.
Of the total number of cases, July cases accounted for only 35% of all cases in Delhi, while it was 78% and 79% for Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, respectively. The other two states – Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu -- were in between these two extremes.
Andhra, in fact, ended June with a much lower caseload than Karnataka and had fewer cases than its neighbor even until the third week of July. Cases just sky-rocketed in the last leg of July and Andhra now has more total cases than even Karnataka.
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