India reported more than 4,000 new cases for the first time in a single day on Sunday with Maharashtra adding 1,942 new cases and Tamil Nadu chipping in with 669 new cases, taking the total count to 67,044 cases and 2,207 deaths, including 111 on Sunday. Total cases in Maharashtra mounted to 22,171 including 53 deaths.
Maharashtra is followed by Gujarat with around 8,195 cases and nearly 500 deaths. The State reported 398 cases and 23 deaths on Sunday.
State like Bihar and Odisha have registered significant
rise due to infection detected
among migrant workers returning home.
Delhi, with nearly 7,000 cases and 73 deaths, has slipped to the fourth spot. Delhi added 383 cases and five deaths on Sunday. Tamil Nadu has now become the third worst coronavirus-hit State, surpassing Delhi after reporting over
7,200 cases.
In Tamil Nadu, the bulk of cases were reported from Chennai, where the vegetable and fruit wholesale market at Koyembedu was declared a hotspot. More than 1,500 positive cases were found to be linked to the market. Of the total cases in Tamil Nadu, 1,824 patients have recovered and 44 have died.
Rajasthan added 106 new cases to reach a total 3,814 cases and 2 more deaths to total 108 deaths, while Madhya Pradesh reported 157 new cases for total of 3,614 and a high death count of 215.
UP reported total 3,373 cases including 79 deaths of which 5 died on Sunday.
West Bengal reported 153 new cases, taking the total to 1,939. With 14 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the death toll rose to 113 in Bengal. 23 new cases of Covid-19 were reported from Haryana.
Total number of positive cases stands at 703 including 10 deaths and 393 active cases.
Odisha registered 15 new positive cases, taking the tally to 377. This includes 306 active cases, 68 cured/discharged and 3 deceased. The number of cases rose to 673 in Bihar after it saw the biggest single day addition of 62 cases, mostly from migrant workers returning home during the last few days.
Jammu & Kashmir reported 25 new positive cases, pushing the total number of cases to 861. The total death toll stands at 9.
The total number of Covid-19 cases in Punjab reached 1,823, with 61 more people testing positive. Number of active cases and fatalities due to the infection stands at 1,626 and 31 respectively.
Talking about the status of containment of Covid-19 in the country, Dr Harsh Vardhan said, “Prior to lockdown, on March 25, the doubling rate was 3.2 when measured over a period of 3 days, 3.0 when measured over a period of 7 days and 4.1 when measured over a period of 14 days.
“Today it stands at 12.0 over a 3-day window, 10.1 over a 7-day window and 11.0 when measured over a 14-day window. Similarly, the fatality rate stands at 3.3 per cent while recovery rate has improved to 30.7 per cent. Clearly the situation has improved due to lockdown. This also reflects on the quality of healthcare being provided to the Covid-19 patients,” he said.
During his visit in East Delhi on Sunday, the Minister said that a total of 855 dedicated Covid hospitals have been identified across the country with 1,65,723 beds (1,47,128 isolation beds + ICU beds); 1,984 dedicated Covid health centres with 1,31,352 beds (1,21,403 isolation beds + 9,949 ICU beds), and, 4,362 Covid care centres with 3,46,856 beds.
Informing about the treatment, he said, “We have noticed that only 2.48 per cent of these Covid cases have required ICU facility, only 1.94 per cent of them have required oxygen support while mere 0.40 per cent have required ventilator support.”
He said that in 10 States/UTs, no new case has emerged in the last 24 hours. They are Andman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Goa, J&K, Ladakh, Manipur, Odisha, Mizoram, Puducherry. Moreover, there are 4 States/ UTs - Daman & Diu, Sikkim, Nagaland & Lakshadweep.