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Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 11
India reported 4,213 coronavirus cases in a 24-hour span, the health ministry said — a development that makes it the largest single-day increase in infection that brought the country’s COVID-19 figure to 67,152.
Health Ministry officials said in their afternoon report that India reported 98 more deaths, bringing the country’s death toll from COVID-19 to 2,201. The country also reported 1,559 recoveries in one day. Authorities said 20,917 patients had been cured so far, bringing India’s recovery rate to 35.1 percent.
The rising infection rate prompted authorities to urge people with symptoms to “come forward to report so they don’t pass the infection on to others.”
“The Aarogya Setu mobile app has contributed significantly to India’s fight against COVID-19,” said Ajay Sawhney, chairman of Group Empowered 9, who also addressed the press conference.
The new record increase in COVID cases comes just a week before the expiration of the Lockdown 3 deadline of May 17.
Concerned about the sudden increase, the central government released two video messages on Monday. The videos show actor Amitabh Bachchan, who asks people not to ignore three key symptoms of COVID-19 (fever, cough, shortness of breath) and not to stigmatize patients.
The ministry said the sudden increase in cases could be the result of the gradual unraveling of a latent burden of disease with people who fear going out and reporting symptoms for fear of stigma.
The central government also said Monday that mild and moderate patients would not need RTPCR tests before being discharged as long as their symptoms had been resolved.
“Only critically ill patients will need negative confirmation of RTPCR before discharge,” officials said.
Aarogya Setu
The central government also said that 9.8 million people have downloaded the Arogya Setu app so far, and allayed fears of data breach by saying it was the most secure data app in the world — just data from positive COVID users. They were transferred to the server to alert officials said health systems to prevent the development of certain areas as potential hot spots.
The central government said the data remains safe on the users’ devices and in case the users are not COVID positive, the data will be automatically deleted in one month and for positive users, the data will be deleted 60 days after the person becomes negative COVID.
So far, out of 9.8 million crore users, only 13,000 positive users have been transferred to the server, said government representative Ajay Sahni, who heads the authorized group on COVID data.
Increase of cases
In Maharashtra, Covid-19 cases increased to 22,171, followed by Gujarat which has 8,194 cases and Tamil Nadu reporting 7,204 cases so far.
The state of Maharashtra has also reported the highest number of deaths, at least 832, followed by Gujarat (493) and Madhya Pradesh (215).
At least 6,923 people in the national capital have been infected with the highly contagious Coronavirus.
The states that have reported more than 3,000 cases are Rajasthan (3,814), Madhya Pradesh (3,614), and Uttar Pradesh (3,467).
Other major states and Union territories that have reported more than 1,000 cases are Andhra Pradesh (19.80), West Bengal (1,939), Punjab (1,823), and Telangana (1,196).
Among other major states and UTs that have reported a significant number of cases are, Bihar (696), Haryana (703), Jammu and Kashmir (861), Karnataka (848), Kerala (512), Odisha (377), Tripura ( 150) and Chandigarh (169).
The states / UTs that have zero coronavirus cases are Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, Mizoram, and the Andaman and Nicobar islands. All individuals have been cured in these states / UT and no victims have been reported from here until now. — With contributions from the agency
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