The ongoing second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting slightly more younger people. According to the head of India’s Medical Research Council, this is The surge in Covid cases across the country is major for two reasons.
“We have found that younger people are a little more involved because they suddenly went out and there are variations across the nation that may affect them too,” said ICMR chief Dr. Balram Bhargava.
The director of the Indian Council of Medical Research added that comparing the data during the first and second waves of Covid-19 showed that there wasn’t a huge age difference. Coronavirus updates on May 12th
People over 40 are more prone to undesirable results.
The center had refuted reports of age group shifts in March. Last month, the center said that 31 percent of those affected in the first wave of 2020 were younger than 30, while the percentage rose to 32 in 2021.
The government said Tuesday that the country was seeing an early trend of decreasing new Covid-19 cases and deaths every day.
According to the government, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana were among the 18 states and union territories that had a persistent plateau or decrease in new Covid-19 cases every day.
At a press conference, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Health Lav Agarwal said that Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Punjab, Assam, Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Tripura are among the 16 states and union areas showing a steady increase in trend new Covid-19 cases every day.
The number of districts with a weekly increase in weekly tests and a decrease in positivity rate increased from 73 (April 15-21) to 182 (April 29-5).
Thirteen states each have more than 1 lakh active Covid-19 cases and 26 states have a positivity rate of over 15 percent, the government said.
India recorded 3,48,421 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours on Wednesday, along with 4,205 deaths, the highest daily number to date. Meanwhile, Maharashtra reported the highest cases again one day after Karnataka.
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