BENGALURU: Karnataka on Friday became the third state in the country — after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu — to log more than 50,000 active Covid cases, and it’s the only state yet to achieve the grim milestone while its total number of cases is still under one lakh.
Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu reached the 50,000 active cases stage after their total crossed the 1-lakh mark. Interestingly, Delhi, with 1.3 lakh total cases now, saw its highest-ever active cases — 27,512 — on June 19 when the total cases were 53,116.
Maharashtra reported 50,000 active cases on June 13, when total cases were more than 1 lakh. Its active cases had peaked to 38,948 on May 28 when the total was 59,546. It then dipped to 34,000 before clawing back to 50,000. The numbers have since grown.
Karnataka has 61% active Covid cases
TN’s active cases crossed 50,000 on July 19 when the total touched 1.7 lakh.
As on July 23, Maharashtra had 1.4 lakh active cases, which is 40% of its total confirmed cases (3.4 lakh), Tamil Nadu had 52,939 active cases, 27% of its total cases (1.9 lakh) and Delhi had 14,554 active cases, just 11% of the total (1.3 lakh) cases. On the said date, Karnataka had 49,931 active cases, which was 62% of the 80,863 total cases, making it the state with the highest percentage of active cases in the country. On Friday, Karnataka had 61% (52,791) of the total 85,870 cases active.
The state also has the highest number of active cases in absolute terms among six states that have more than 50,000 but less than 1 lakh total confirmed cases.
As TOI reported earlier in the week, this trend, according to experts, is largely due to the dip in the pace of recoveries. Dr Giridhara Babu, member, ICMR task force on research and surveillance, and Karnataka Covid task force, had earlier explained that the dip in the pace of recovery indicates an increase in the rate of acute cases, which need medical intervention and take longer to recover.
Dr MK Sudharshan, member, government task force, had said it was important to distinguish between Covid infections — seen mostly in healthy adults and not worrisome — and Covid disease, a state when the infection progresses to a stage needing medical intervention, to be able to efficiently strategise for the coming months.
Earlier, most cases in Karnataka were just infections where patients’ condition remained well under control. In recent weeks, there are more cases where the infection has progressed to the disease stage, which takes longer to recover.
Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu reached the 50,000 active cases stage after their total crossed the 1-lakh mark. Interestingly, Delhi, with 1.3 lakh total cases now, saw its highest-ever active cases — 27,512 — on June 19 when the total cases were 53,116.
Maharashtra reported 50,000 active cases on June 13, when total cases were more than 1 lakh. Its active cases had peaked to 38,948 on May 28 when the total was 59,546. It then dipped to 34,000 before clawing back to 50,000. The numbers have since grown.
Karnataka has 61% active Covid cases
TN’s active cases crossed 50,000 on July 19 when the total touched 1.7 lakh.
As on July 23, Maharashtra had 1.4 lakh active cases, which is 40% of its total confirmed cases (3.4 lakh), Tamil Nadu had 52,939 active cases, 27% of its total cases (1.9 lakh) and Delhi had 14,554 active cases, just 11% of the total (1.3 lakh) cases. On the said date, Karnataka had 49,931 active cases, which was 62% of the 80,863 total cases, making it the state with the highest percentage of active cases in the country. On Friday, Karnataka had 61% (52,791) of the total 85,870 cases active.
The state also has the highest number of active cases in absolute terms among six states that have more than 50,000 but less than 1 lakh total confirmed cases.
As TOI reported earlier in the week, this trend, according to experts, is largely due to the dip in the pace of recoveries. Dr Giridhara Babu, member, ICMR task force on research and surveillance, and Karnataka Covid task force, had earlier explained that the dip in the pace of recovery indicates an increase in the rate of acute cases, which need medical intervention and take longer to recover.
Dr MK Sudharshan, member, government task force, had said it was important to distinguish between Covid infections — seen mostly in healthy adults and not worrisome — and Covid disease, a state when the infection progresses to a stage needing medical intervention, to be able to efficiently strategise for the coming months.
Earlier, most cases in Karnataka were just infections where patients’ condition remained well under control. In recent weeks, there are more cases where the infection has progressed to the disease stage, which takes longer to recover.
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