Coronavirus numbers explained: cases may see a sharp increase in the coming days



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Written by Amitabh Sinha
, Edited by the desktop explained | Pune |

Posted: May 5, 2020 10:35:57 am


The overall count in the country was 46,390 at the end of Monday.

If the scenes in the first day of the third blocking phase By any indication, the number of Coronavirus infections is likely to rise sharply in the coming days. Large crowds were seen in many places, not just in liquor store front, and the rules of physical distance were widely ignored. In many states, the migrant workers movement It is also giving rise to similar situations.

Already, India records strong increases in their numbers every day. A total of 3,852 new infections were discovered on Monday, in part because Maharashtra confirmed a large number of test results pending from previous days. The overall count in the country was 46,390 at the end of Monday.

Maharashtra, which has the maximum number of cases in the country, reported 1,567 cases on Monday, more than half of which were test confirmations from previous days. Tamil Nadu recorded his biggest single day increase to date, with an addition of 527 cases, which brought his account to 3,550, while Delhi and Gujarat added more than 300 cases each.

In the meantime, West Bengal has revised its Coronavirus numbers, and revealed a much larger number of cases than was previously known. Monday, West Bengal also changed its reporting format and he started giving much more information about the pandemic than he was doing previously. The state has reported that it had 1,259 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Until a day earlier, this number was less than 900, although the state had stopped giving information on the total number of cases and was only reporting new cases.

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State Total cases New cases Total deaths
Maharashtra 14541 1567 583
Gujarat 5804 376 319
Delhi 4898 349 69
Tamil Nadu 3550 527 31
Rajasthan 2998 175 77
Madhya Pradesh 2942 105 165
Uttar Pradesh 2766 121 fifty
Andhra Pradesh 1650 67 33
west of bengal 1259 275 133
Punjab 1232 130 2. 3

The state has also revised its death numbers, and now includes all the deaths of people who tested positive, not just those who did not have pre-existing diseases. As a result, the number of deaths in the state is now 133. Until a day before this number was less than 50. According to the most recent information, 87 of these deaths occurred in Kolkata and another 17 in the twin city of Howrah. Only Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Pune have recorded more deaths.

In the first four days of this month, India has added more than 10,000 cases of new coronaviruses. Speaking in the Adda event Hosted by The Indian Express, Dr. Randeep Guleria, director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, said the fact that the growth curve for Coronavirus has not shown a downward trend despite the blockade was a cause for concern. He said the lock helped flatten the growth curve, but did not cause it to bend.

“That is cause for concern. That is why the next four to six weeks will be very, very important because the blockade cannot be there forever. The ideal, the dream, would be to have zero cases. But I don’t see that happening. The number of cases continues to increase every day. But the increase in the curve is not so strong that we cannot handle it, “said Guleria.

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