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India: Active Covid-19 cases cross 4,000, 5 deaths reported in a day
Kerala continues to have the maximum number of Covid-19 cases in India, while a sharp rise has been seen in several other states
- PUBLISHED: Tue 3 Jun 2025, 4:55 PM UPDATED: Tue 3 Jun 2025, 5:13 PM
The number of active Covid-19 cases in India is currently 4,026, according to data shared by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday. A total of five new Covid-19 deaths have also been reported in the country in the past 24 hours.
Kerala continues to have the maximum number of cases, standing at 1,416, followed by Maharashtra (494), Gujarat (397), and Delhi (393). Karnataka, Haryana, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat also recorded a sharp increase in active cases over the last few days.
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The spike is attributed to a highly transmissible new variant, several Indian media reports say. The highly contagious COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1, along with LF.7, has been circulating rapidly in India and many other Asian countries.
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Elderly patients among the decased
The five deaths recorded in the past day were one each in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal and two in Maharashtra. Among the deceased were elderly patients, including an 80-year-old male from Kerala with severe pneumonia and a 73-year-old woman in Maharashtra with diabetes and hypertension.
West Bengal reported its first COVID-related death of 2025 on Tuesday. A 43-year-old woman from Alipore in Kolkata, who had been on ventilator support at a private hospital for a week, succumbed to the virus. According to hospital sources, she was also suffering from Acute Coronary Syndrome, septic shock, and acute kidney injury.
India has has recorded 32 Covid-related deaths since January 1.
Severity of infections low
Officials from the Indian Council of Medical Research and the health ministry have stated that the COVID-19 situation in India is being closely monitored while stressing that the severity of infections is low, with most of the patients being under home care and that there was no cause for worry.
Dr Rajiv Behl, Director General of ICMR, on June 2 stated that genome sequencing of samples in West and South have shown that the variants leading to the current rise in cases are not severe and are sub variants of Omicron only.
