Growing SpreadAs the death curve steepens across states, new infections continue to rise. With 315,909 new cases of Covid-19 in India on Wednesday, India reported the biggest daily increase in any country ever, setting a new record.
Given that testing is trailing demand, and is happening with a lag in several states, this number too is probably an undercount of the real caseload.Worse, the virus seems to be spreading faster across the country than in the first wave.
There were 317 districts—or 44% of all districts—that reported more than 1,000 new cases in the past seven days. States with a large number of such caseload districts are Maharashtra, Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh.