Covid-19: Without closure, India cases would have been almost 9X | India News

NEW DELHI: When PM Modi announced a total block exactly a month ago, there were around 500 Covid-19 cases in India. Average daily growth in cases was 21.6% on March 24, which has since fallen to 8.1%. If India had continued to grow at 21.6%, the number of cases would have crossed 2 lakh by now.
Note: The growth rate of 8.1% three days after the fifth week of closure is even higher than that achieved by the most affected countries after the blockade during the same period. While Germany reduced it to 2%, EE. USA It stood at 4.8%. If India continues at the current rate, we will have about 40,000 cases by the end of next week, down to almost 70,000 in a fortnight and about 2.5 lakh in late May.
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But with a few states managing to reduce their growth rate (Kerala is growing at 1.8%, less than Germany), there is reason for hope. And if India manages to reduce its growth rate to 6% a month later, we would have to deal with around 1.3 lakh cases; at 5%, the total number will not even cross 1 lakh.
That said, nationwide cases of confirmed coronavirus infections rose more than 1,750 on Friday, topping the total of 24,000. The death toll was 780 with 59 new deaths.

In addition, the Home Office set up four more Inter-Ministerial Central Teams (IMCT) to assess the “dire” situation of Covid-19 at emerging hot spots in Ahmedabad and Surat in Gujarat, Hyderabad in Telangana, and Chennai in Tamil Nadu. This, plus six previous IMCTs to visit Kolkata and other areas of West Bengal, Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra, Indore in Madhya Pradesh and Jaipur in Rajasthan.
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The movement behind the removal of the 10 teams, formed so far, was fueled by reports of blockade violations in these areas. The violations include incidents ranging from violence to front-line healthcare professionals, attacks on police personnel, violations of social distancing rules in markets, and opposition to the creation of quarantine centers.
In the United States, President Trump signed a $ 484 billion bill that helps employers and hospitals under the stress of the pandemic. Additionally, New York reported its lowest number of daily deaths in weeks on Friday. As the death toll in Britain approached 20,000 on Friday, the death toll count worldwide closed at 200,000.