Active cases spiral, total infections close to 55k

Jaipur: Covid graph of active cases is constantly moving upwards as the state continues to create new infection records almost daily.

On Tuesday, the state reported the biggest single-day jump of 1,217 new infections taking the cumulative infection count to 54,887. In past 18 days, the state has set record of biggest single-day jump 10 times, which indicate that the ailment was spreading fast and steadily.

Kota has set a record of biggest single-day spike with 227 new infections as it breached the 3000 mark. Kota has reported more than 100 cases each day nine times in 11 days.

Kota’s cumulative cases touched 3,072. Along with Kota, Bharatpur too breached the 3,000 mark with 3,016 cumulative cases. Now, the state has six districts which have reported more than 3,000 cumulative cases including Jaipur, Jodhpur, Alwar, Pali, Bharatpur and Kota.

Despite Kota witnessing a spike in Covid cases, it is Alwar, which is currently having the highest number of active cases at 2047 followed by Jaipur (1,898), Kota (1,545) and Jodhpur (1,536). Kota has surpassed Jodhpur to book the third place in the list of districts having highest number of active cases.

In the last 24 hours, 11 persons lost their lives to the virus taking the casualty count to 811. Four persons died in Kota taking its toll to 51, Rajsamand reported its 11th death, Sawai Madhopur reported its 13th death, two died in Baran taking its toll to 10, two died in Dungarpur taking its toll to six, while Jaipur reported its 220th death.

Districts which reported new cases are Kota (227), Sikar (177), Jodhpur (128), Jaipur (106), Pali (64), Ajmer (60), Nagaur (52), Alwar (51), Jhalawar (48), Barmer (47), Bharatpur (39), Baran (37), Sriganganagar (35), Rajsamand (31), Sawai Madhopur (24), Tonk (18), Karauli (18), Dungarpur (16), Sirohi (13), Banswara (8), Jaisalmer (7), Chittorgarh (4), Dausa (4), Pratapgarh (2) and Hanumangarh (1).