On Saturday, coronavirus cases in the country surpassed the 10 million mark with 25,152 new infections. However, the virus in the country, which peaked in September, appears to be on the wane. The imminent arrival of the Covid-19 vaccine has also instilled new hope that the pandemic that has claimed 145,000 lives worldwide is disappearing.
We explore how the pandemic spread across the country …
The first case of coronavirus in the country was reported on January 30. The coronavirus took six months to cross the million mark.
In September, the country was reeling from the worst phase of the pandemic. It was also the time when the total number of cases passed the five million mark.
Experts believe that the worst stage for the country is probably over. The coronavirus spike in India occurred in mid-September, when 97,894 new cases were reported on September 16. Since then, new daily cases have dramatically decreased.
Noted virologist Dr. Shahid Jameel said that India’s curve for daily cases is on a downward slope. “Right now, we are receiving about 25,500 cases a day compared to more than 93,000 cases a day in mid-September. I think the worst is over. But there will be small spikes in the future, as we witnessed in late November.” said. said.
India’s Covid-19 numbers have been continuously falling for three months. On Friday, according to ministry data, there were 25,000 new cases. The last time India reported fewer than 26,000 was five months ago in early July.
The virus’s growth rate is also slowing down with the last million cases occurring in 29 days. This is the second highest number of days the virus has taken to infect one million people in India since January. In September, the number of cases went from four million to five million in just 11 days.
A 95% recovery rate is one of the highest in the world, according to the Ministry of Health. Currently, there are 308k active cases in the country.
The total number of discharged cases is 95,20,827 with 31,087 new recoveries in the last 24 hours against 22,889 new Covid-19 infections, bringing the total number of cases to 99,79,447, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. .
New recoveries have outpaced new cases continuously for the past 21 days.
The case fatality rate in India, which measures the number of deaths versus the number of confirmed cases, has been consistently low since the start of the outbreak. It has remained below 4% throughout the pandemic.
Globally, Italy suffered the worst of the Covid-19 virus during the start of the pandemic. The CFR in the southern European nation stayed above 14 for more than four months. The virus has claimed more than 67,000 lives in the country.
Although the virus appears to have decreased in most parts of India, South India continues to report a high number of cases. The five most affected states in terms of the number of confirmed cases were all reported from South India. Maharashtra, with more than 1.88 million cases, has the highest proportion of cases; followed by Karnataka, with more than 900,000 cases.
In the last month, the number of cases in the country increased by one million to reach the 10 million mark. Most of these cases were reported in five states: Kerala, Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bengal, and Rajasthan.
During this period, the southern states showed a dramatic decrease in the number of cases. On November 19, the proportion of cases from the southern states of India was 37%. A month later, the share dropped to 27%.
While all states saw only one peak of the coronavirus, Delhi was the only region in the country that has witnessed three peaks.
The first peak occurred in June, followed by the second peak in September. The capital witnessed the third peak of the virus in November around the holiday season.
On Saturday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Delhi is now under control, as the city reported 1,133 new cases of infection with a positivity rate of less than 1.5 percent.
Bengaluru Urban, with 3,81,623 confirmed cases, is the most affected district in the country. It is followed by three districts: Pune (3.65 lakh), Mumbai (2.85 lakh) and Thane (2.49 lakh) of Maharashtra.
Chennai is the fifth most affected country with 2.21,587 cases.
North and Middle Andaman in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands is the least affected district with a single case of coronavirus.
Globally, India is the second most affected country in the world behind the US, which has witnessed the most catastrophic impact of the pandemic with more than 17 million cases and more than 313,000 deaths.
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