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The health ministry said it takes almost a month of zero-case reports to stop the spread of the disease in a particular area.
“We believe that the spread of the disease has stopped in one area if there is no new case for 28 days,” said Luv Aggarwal, undersecretary of the health ministry, while justifying the need to extend the closure until May 3. .
During this period, he added, the focus will be on breaking the transmission chain and promoting the behavioral changes necessary to combat this pandemic.
On Tuesday, the count of new Covid-19 cases in India returned to three figures with 944 new infections reported, down from Monday’s high of 1,276, but still the second highest reported so far. Maharashtra remained at the center of the Indian virus outbreak, reporting an additional 350 cases and up to 18 crown-related deaths, more than half of all recent deaths in the country. The death toll from the virus in India was close to the 400 mark at 393.
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During the second phase of the national shutdown, the health ministry said, the focus will be on breaking the coronavirus transmission chain and promoting the behavioral changes necessary to combat the pandemic. To date, nearly 380 of the country’s 732 districts have been affected by the outbreak. The good news is that there are 25 districts that reported Covid-19 cases before, but have not had a positive case in the past 14 days, said an official from Delhi, which is the second state most affected by the coronavirus, recorded 51 new cases. and two Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday, bringing his Covid-19 count to 1,561 and the number of deaths to 30.
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A total of 16,282 people have been evaluated for Covid-19 in Delhi. Of this, 1,561 (9.58%) tested positive and 13,748 (84%) tested negative. Results from other samples are expected, authorities said. They added that to speed up testing, the state government decided to involve private laboratories for Covid-19 testing if government-run facilities are overloaded. Maharashtra, for the second consecutive day, recorded at least 350 new cases, with more than 200 cases reported from Mumbai alone. The total number of cases in Maharahstra on Tuesday soared to 2,684 cases. The state also reported 18 deaths.
However, the good news was that the case fatality rate had dropped to 6.37% from 6.55% on Monday and to the astonishingly high 7% on Sunday. On Tuesday, 23 people were discharged from city hospitals and went home. Overall, 164 people have recovered from the infection in the state.
Rajasthan recorded 108 new cases, its highest single-day count, including 83 from Jaipur, bringing the state’s Covid-19 count to 1,005. Those who tested positive included a two-year-old baby from Pokhran (Jaisalmer).
Meghalaya, meanwhile, became the 32nd state / UT to register a Covid-19 case on Monday night, after a doctor at a private hospital here tested positive, Prime Minister Conrad K Sangma said. “A person in Shillong tested positive for Covid-19. He is a doctor at Bethany Hospital,” said Sangma.
