At least 25 fresh cases were reported from Delhi alone, taking the national capital’s tally to 97, as per the Delhi Health Department.
New Delhi| The number of Covid-19 cases climbed to 1,251 in India on Monday, registering the highest single-day increase of 227 cases, while the death toll rose to 32, the Union Health Ministry said.
The total cases are 1,251 — this includes 1,117 active cases, 102 cured/discharged/migrated people, and 32 deaths.
However, the government maintained it was still in the local transmission stage. The Supreme Court, meanwhile, cautioned that fear and panic are becoming a bigger problem than the coronavirus.
The government also said there was no immediate plan to extend the 21-day lockdown period, which entered its sixth day on Monday, while the Indian Army dismissed as “fake” social media posts about a possible emergency declaration next month.
While one death each was reported from Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, the details of the third was not available on the chart. So far, Maharashtra has reported the most deaths (8), followed by Gujarat (6), Karnataka (3) Madhya Pradesh (3), Delhi (2) and Jammu and Kashmir (2).
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India is still in the local transmission stage of the coronavirus pandemic, the government has said, responding to questions about a health ministry document that said the country was currently in “local transmission and limited community transmission phase”. “Nowhere are we calling it community transmission. We are still in the local transmission stage. If we use the word ‘community’ then there is speculation,” said Luv Agarwal of the Indian Council of Medical Research.
COVID-19 has already killed more than 35,000 people worldwide, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University, with the number of confirmed cases over 766,000. US President Donald Trump has warned that the peak death rate in the country from the coronavirus pandemic was likely to hit in two weeks.
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