5,000+ new cases, 100 die in 1 day; focus on 30 city areas
With well over 100 deaths and more than 5,000 fresh cases in one day, India on Friday saw over 83,000 coronavirus cases. While the health ministry’s Friday morning data, essentially late Thursday figures, said the total cases were 81,970, with 100 fresh deaths and 3,967 new cases, PTI reported there were 82,885 positive cases. By late Friday evening, coronavirus data tracking site Covid19india.org said the total cases were 83,072 (a jump of 5,070 cases in a day) and 113 more deaths.
Among those who tested positive in the last 24 hours were an Army soldier posted at New Delhi’s Sena Bhavan and 13 foreign returnees in Kerala under the Centre’s Vande Bharat mission.
A Group of Ministers met on Friday to discuss the challenges before various states and Union territories arising from the returning migrant labourers and the returnees from abroad.
The Centre said there are 30 municipal areas in India that constitute 79 per cent of the nation’s case load. Officials said the government’s focus was now on Covid-19 management strategy in the states with the highest number of confirmed cases and highest fatalities. Officials said they are also monitoring case fatality management, for which timely detection of infection and contact tracing were the best way forward.
Economist Prof Shamika Ravi, who tracks Covid-19 data, said the highest number of new cases are coming from Maharashtra which is reporting more than 1,500 cases daily.
With than 100 deaths and over 5,000 fresh cases in one day, India on Friday recorded over 83,000 cases of novel coronavirus.
While Union health ministry’s Friday early morning data, which is essentially late Thursday evening figures, said total cases were 81,970 with 100 fresh deaths and 3,967 new cases, PTI summed total positive cases to 82,885. However, by late evening, novel coronavirus data tracking site Covid19india.org said the total cases were 83,072 (a jump of 5070 cases in a day) and new 113 deaths since yesterday.
Among those who have tested positive in the last 24 hours include an Indian Army soldier posted at New Delhi’s Sena Bhawan and 13 foreign returnees in Kerala under Union government’s Vande Bharat mission. The coronavirus death toll in Delhi reached 123 while total number of cases were 8,895 on Friday. Contact tracing and quarantine has begun after the soldier tested positive and the building has been closed for sanitation and disinfection.
A Group of Union Ministers met on Friday to discuss the challenges before various States and union territories arising from the returning migrant labourers and the returnees from abroad.
According to the Central government,
◗ AMONG THOSE who have tested positive in the last 24 hours include an Indian Army soldier posted at New Delhi’s Sena Bhawan and 13 foreign returnees in Kerala under Union government’s Vande Bharat mission.
there are 30 municipal areas in the country that are constituting 79% of India’s case load. Officials said that the government focus is now on COVID-19 management strategy in the states with highest number of confirmed cases and highest number of fatalities. Officials said they are also monitoring treatment and case fatality management, for which timely detection of infection and contact tracing were the best way forward.
Economist Prof Shamika Ravi, who tracks Covid-19 data, said the highest number of new cases are coming from Maharashtra which is reporting more than 1500 cases daily. Second largest number of new cases are coming from Tamil Nadu, through the trend has started declining here now, followed by Delhi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Gujarat too with many cases is indicating a falling trend.
Though the recovery of patients too is increasing, it is getting dwarfed by big rise in active cases in states like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat.