India had 52,952 cases positive to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) by 8 am, May 7, 2020, according to the Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare.
The death toll was at 1,783.
The number of active cases 35,902.
Until now, 15,266 were cured / discharged.
According to private aggregator Covid19india.org, Mumbai remained the most-infected district with 10,714 cases.
Delhi (though with multiple districts) continued to be the second-most affected city.
Ahmedabad has now emerged as the steady third-worst affecfted, with 4,716 cases.
Chennai followed with 2,331 cases.
Indore and Jaipur were also well above 1,000 cases.
Kolkata was yet to reach the mark, but there several cases have been reported from adjoining areas in neighbouring districts.
According to aggregator Worldomegters.info, India was amnong the countries that were testing the least for SARS-CoV-2 — only 985 / million people.
This was way lower than neighbouring Maldives (18,246) and Bhutan (14,894 / mln).
Even Nepal (2,303 / mln), Sri Lanka (1,426) and Pakistan (1,108) were ahead.
The testing statistics for the dozen countries with more cases than India (except China, whose information is not available) are: Peru (13,025 / mln) Canada (25,795) Iran (6,485) Brazil (1,597) Turkey (14,640) Germany (31,891) France (16,856) Russia (32,913) UK (21,330) Italy (38,221) Spain (41,332) USA (24,186)
