Coronavirus India: the country’s recovery rate was 48.36% this morning.
New Delhi:
India has 2,466,628 cases of coronavirus, data from the Union’s Ministry of Health showed this morning, crossing the COVID-19 count from Spain. India is now ranked fifth in the world in terms of coronavirus cases, after the United States, Brazil, Russia and the United Kingdom. The total number of cases in the country includes 6,929 people who died from the highly contagious infection. With the increase in coronavirus cases, the director of the Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Dr. Randeep Guleria, said that coronavirus cases in India could peak in two to three months, but he has argued that there was no community transmission at the national level.
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Maharashtra tops the ranking in terms of the total number of confirmed cases, active cases, recoveries and deaths. With 2,739 new cases in the state in the past 24 hours, the number of virus cases in Maharashtra has reached 82,968. The third phase of the “Mission Begin”, relaxing restrictions in Maharashtra, will begin tomorrow. However, religious places and restaurants in the state will not open from tomorrow.
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Coronavirus cases in Tamil Nadu, which has the second highest number of virus cases after Maharashtra, touched 30,152 on Saturday. This is the sixth consecutive day that the state has registered more than 1,000 cases.
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The country’s recovery rate – the number of patients who have successfully battled the disease – stood at 48.36% this morning. 1,19,293 people have recovered, the Ministry of Health said.
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Delhi – the state with the third highest case in India – has seen a sharp increase in coronavirus cases in recent days, registering more than 1,000 new cases every day. The city reported 1,320 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, bringing the number to 27,654 as the number of deaths rose to 761.
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Amid criticism and complaints about the alleged lack of attention from Delhi hospitals to those who come in for admission, Delhi’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, said there was no shortage of beds for critical coronavirus patients in Delhi and that no one with symptoms should be refused. “Some hospitals deny admission to COVID-19 patients. I warn those who think they will be able to black market beds using the influence of their protectors from other parties, you will not be spared”, a said Mr. Kejriwal.
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The central government had imposed the lock, nicknamed the largest in the world, in late March and extended it several times before announcing a phased exit from tomorrow. In the midst of an increasing number of coronavirus cases in the country, the government has authorized the opening of shopping centers, restaurants and religious places with precautions from tomorrow. Intra and interstate movements of people and goods outside the containment area were also allowed.
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The directives, which will take effect from tomorrow, include measures such as the shifting of visitors to shopping centers and the absence of contact with idols in religious places. Detailed rules have also been published for offices that have been allowed to reopen in recent weeks. However, all establishments that fall under containment zones will remain closed, as previously announced.
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The coronavirus pandemic has killed 749 people in the United States in the past 24 hours, according to figures released Saturday by Johns Hopkins University. The latest deaths bring the total in the United States to 1,09,791, and there have been more than 1.9 million cases, according to a real-time count from the University of Baltimore.
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Globally, 68.91,219 people have been infected with the highly contagious virus.
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The new coronavirus first appeared in December in the central city of Wuhan, China.
