Of the 129 districts that logged more than 5,000 new cases in the past week, the district with the maximum new cases per capita was Gurugram in Haryana (11,695 new cases per million population). Kolkata was ranked number six (9,494), Dehradun number nine (8,632) and Srinagar number 11 (8,355). Also in the top 20 is Kamrup Metropolitan (which includes the state capital Guwahati) in Assam (6,380) and Chandigarh (6,320). Jharkhand remained the state with the highest surge in covid-19 deaths for the second consecutive week. At 1,100 deaths this week, it has reported almost 4.3 times of what it did a fortnight ago.

Source: Mint May 06, 2021 07:18 UTC