Maharashtra and Gujarat, two of the worst affected States, saw a decline in the coronavirus cases on Friday, but Madhya Pradesh recorded a major spike as India recorded 1,395 cases during the day, taking the total to 24,434 and death count to 780.
In the last 24 hours ending 8 am on Friday, the country had reported 1,752 new coronavirus cases and 37 deaths.
As of 10 pm, on Friday, Maharashtra added 390 cases and 18 deaths as against 728 cases on Thursday. Maharashtra total count of positive cases stood at 6,817 and a casualty of 300.
Gujarat, which recorded 250 plus cases on Thursday, saw reduction of Friday, adding just 190 cases for total count of 2,815 and death count of 127. Delhi recorded 138 cases and three deaths. Now the national Capital has a total of 2,514 cases and 53 casualty.
Rajasthan added 44 new cases, Madhya Pradesh 159 and Tamil Nadu 72. Uttar Pradesh added 11 new cases for total count of 1,621 and 25 deaths.
Incidentally, States like Bihar which were virtually out of corona radar till now, have started to report significant number of cases. On Friday the State reported 44 cases, the single day high, for total ,count of 214.
Union Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said that in the last 28 days, 15 districts have had no new case. Till date, there are 80 districts in the country that have reported no new cases in last 14 days. “A total of 4,748 people, which is 20.57 per cent of the total number of cases, have been cured so far,” Agarwal said.
“As on today, 15 districts in the country which earlier had cases have not reported any fresh cases since the last 28 days. Besides districts already highlighted, three new districts which got added to this list include: Durg & Rajnandgaon from Chhattisgarh; and Shivpuri from Madhya Pradesh,” said the official at the routine press briefing here.
He added, “A total of 80 districts from 23 States/UTs have not reported any new cases since the last 14 days.”
However, so far, 432 districts have confirmed cases in the country. Over the past two days, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Surat and Jaipur districts have seen the biggest spike in confirmed cases nationally. These five districts account for 51 per cent of new cases over this period.
Among districts, Mumbai (3,746 cases) has reported the most number of cases nationally, followed by Ahmedabad (1,501) in Gujarat, Pune (945) in Maharashtra, Indore (923) in Madhya Pradesh and Jaipur (720) in Rajasthan. These top five districts now account for 37 per cent of confirmed cases in the country, according to data available from various reports.
New Delhi (484), Hyderabad (479) in Telangana, Thane (477) in Maharashtra, Surat (415) in Gujarat and Chennai (378) in Tamil Nadu are the other high-burden districts which figure in the list of top ten districts. The top ten districts account for 47 per cent of the confirmed cases nationally.
Worldwide, more than 2.6 million people have now been detected as Covid-19 patients globally even as several parts of the world, including India, continue to be under lockdown to contain the pandemic.