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Read the passage given below and answer the questions complete the statements that follow by choosing the correct options from the given ones.
1. India experienced a 15% drop in fresh Covid - 19 cases detected in the week ending Sunday, the lowest weekly count in more than six months with Kerala numbers declining by a steep 21%. The country reported over 2.14 lakh new cases in the week (September 13-19), down from 2.51 lakh in the previous seven days. This was the lowest numbers of cases reported in 27 weeks since March 8-14 (for weeks ending Sunday).
2. The sharp fall in all India infections was mainly due to numbers dropping in Kerala, which still accounts for 62% of all cases in the country during this week. Two weeks earlier, Kerala's weekly case count had crossed 2 lakhs, as the latest wave of the pandemic in the state peaked; cases continued to decline in Maharashtra while Mizoram and Tamil Nadu registered a rise in infections during the week.
3. Meanwhile, on Sunday, India reported 30,814 fresh cases, nearly the same as the number on the previous day (31,242) as Kerala logged 19,653 new infections. The state had recorded 19,352 cases the previous day.
4. There were 295 deaths from the virus with Kerala reporting 152 fatalities, Maharashtra 49, Tamil Nadu 27, Karnataka 16 and Bengal 11.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions complete the statements that follow by choosing the correct options from the given ones.
1. India experienced a 15% drop in fresh Covid - 19 cases detected in the week ending Sunday, the lowest weekly count in more than six months with Kerala numbers declining by a steep 21%. The country reported over 2.14 lakh new cases in the week (September 13-19), down from 2.51 lakh in the previous seven days. This was the lowest numbers of cases reported in 27 weeks since March 8-14 (for weeks ending Sunday).
2. The sharp fall in all India infections was mainly due to numbers dropping in Kerala, which still accounts for 62% of all cases in the country during this week. Two weeks earlier, Kerala's weekly case count had crossed 2 lakhs, as the latest wave of the pandemic in the state peaked; cases continued to decline in Maharashtra while Mizoram and Tamil Nadu registered a rise in infections during the week.
3. Meanwhile, on Sunday, India reported 30,814 fresh cases, nearly the same as the number on the previous day (31,242) as Kerala logged 19,653 new infections. The state had recorded 19,352 cases the previous day.
4. There were 295 deaths from the virus with Kerala reporting 152 fatalities, Maharashtra 49, Tamil Nadu 27, Karnataka 16 and Bengal 11.
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