47,930 new cases, 490 deaths in State
The Hindu
As the State prepared to go into a more stringent lockdown to arrest the soaring number of COVID-19 cases, it continued to report huge numbers in the concluding days of the partial lockdown too. On Su
As the State prepared to go into a more stringent lockdown to arrest the soaring number of COVID-19 cases, it continued to report huge numbers in the concluding days of the partial lockdown too. On Sunday, as many as 47,930 new cases were reported (for Saturday, May 8), as the total number of cases in the State inched towards the 20 lakh mark, standing at 19.34 lakh. The overall number of active cases is now 5.64 lakh. Fatalities too remained worrying – 490 new deaths were reported, taking the toll to 18,776. The case fatality rate for the day was 1.02%.
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