India records 27,000 Covid-19 deaths in last week

India reported more than 27,000 deaths and over 27.4 lakh new cases in the week ended Sunday, its highest weekly Covid numbers till date.

Deaths grew at a faster pace of nearly 15%, with the daily case fatality rate crossing 1% for the first time in the second wave in the last three days.

The weekly toll crossed 25,000 for the first time as the country recorded 27,243 deaths during May 3-9, up from 23,781 reported in the previous week.

The growth in weekly cases slowed considerably, indicating that perhaps the second wave had reached, or was nearing, its peak.
India recorded 27,44,545 new cases in the week, a rise of 5% from last week's count of 26.13 lakh. By contrast, cases had grown by 16% last week (April 26-May 2) and by 47% in the week before.

On Sunday, daily cases dropped below 4 lakh for the first time in five days as 3,66,902 fresh infections were detected in the country. So far, the highest daily case count has been 4,14,554 reported on Thursday (May 6). Since then, the daily numbers have declined on each successive day. Fatalities from the virus too dipped on Sunday to 3,751 after remaining over 4,000 in the past two days. Significantly, the CFR has remained just over 1% for the past three days. CFR is the percentage of patients who have succumbed to the virus out of the total number testing positive.