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More than 4,200 cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the highest spike so far, and 97 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours in India, the Union health ministry said on Monday.
The count of respiratory illness in India increased to 67,152 with 44,029 active cases, 20,916 people who have recovered and 2,206 deaths, according to the board of the ministry of health at 8 in the morning.
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, and Tamil Nadu continued to report a large number of Covid-19 cases.
The increase in the number of infections comes on a day that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet with the chief ministers to discuss the exit strategy from the country’s blockade, as well as the steps to revive the economy as the blockade continues. to stop the spread of Covid-19.
The meeting arrives before May 17, when the second extension of the blockade ends. The blockade was enforced on March 25 and was originally supposed to end on April 14. However, it was extended to May 3 and then again to May 17.
In addition to Covid-19’s economy and management at critical points, the Modi-CM meeting could also see a discussion about migrant workers who have returned home and stranded Indians being relocated from many parts of the world. .
Modi’s last meeting with the CMs via video conference was held on April 27, when most states expressed their willingness to partially lift the shutdown.
According to Johns Hopkins University’s Covid-19 tracker, more than four million people have been infected with Sars-Cov-2, which causes coronavirus disease, and 282,709 have died worldwide.
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