Average daily Covid toll below 1,000 after 71 days

India’s average daily death toll from

Covid-19

fell below the 1,000

mark

on Friday after 71 days, not counting the

fatalities

from earlier periods that are being added to the overall tally every day.

The seven-day rolling average of

daily deaths

in the country declined to 983 on Friday, from 1,036 on the previous day. The average has been falling steadily since hitting a peak of 4,040 on May 16 in keeping with the fall in Covid-related fatalities as the second Covid wave continues to ebb. However, statistics on the death count have been complicated by “backlog” deaths being recorded, mainly by Maharashtra, every day since mid-May. If such “backlog” mortalities are counted in the daily numbers then the toll still goes over 1,000.
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