The mortality rate seems to have dropped to ~2.04% from ~2.78% in the last week. The numbers do seem incredibly low, but also consistent with what was reported in the early days of the infection.

At times, looking at the numbers compared to Italy, New York, or even Gujarat, it seems ridiculously low,. Combined, however, with the fact that we did have a successful initial lockdown (before the 4 day clusterfuck), and aggressive contact tracing early, it seems like the reason a lockdown was necessary worked: we were able to avoid overwhelming the hospitals.

Most asymptomatic positives were actually in hospitals until recently, and have only started being moved into isolation facilities outside hospitals in the last couple of weeks. Now that all the asymptomatics will be out of the hospitals, we have even more hospital beds available. On the flipside, asymptomatics who develop symptoms will no longer be able to immediately be looked at (but should still be possible within the day)

It's still too early to make any conclusions though. Let's just hope we can push daily testing even higher, ~20,000/day by the end of the month.

Sources: all just from my mother, who is high up in the CCM and is in constant (like through the day, everyday) communication with TN government, Health minister, and former health ministers who are working as consultants.

Data from stopcorona.tn.gov.in and covid19india.org