Sharp rise in the number of death, new cases and confirmed cases in the country- government concerned on rapid rise

KalimNews, Kalimpong, 28 May 2020:  65th day of national lockdown-India witnessed a spike of 6,566 fresh coronavirus cases and 194 deaths in the last 24 hours. As per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s latest data released on Thursday, the total number of cases in the country now stands at 1,58,333 including 86,110 active cases. As many as 67,692 people have been cured/discharged. The death toll has reached 4,531.

After the first confirmed positive case was reported on January 30 in Kerala, the epidemic has expanded its footprints in the country, affecting more than 1.25 lakh people.

The country is under lockdown since 25th March and it has been extended till 31st May 2020 in four phases. Today is the tenth day of the fourth phase of the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19. 

Though the number of new cases and death rate has decreased since a couple of days today the number of death has increased from 146 to 170. Number of new cases is slowly decreasing with rise in recovery cases for the past few days which lowered the active cases too.  India faced an alarming rise in new cases a few days back and it has registered the highest single day spike during May 25 (6,977 cases). Consecutively it had increased as follows: May 24 (6,767 cases), May 23 (6,654 cases), May 22 (6,088 cases), May 20 (5,611 cases), May 21 (5,609) and May 18 (5,242 cases) in the last seven days.

The jump in cases, officials have pointed out, also corresponds to a rise in testing as 1 lakh samples have been tested daily for five days in a row now. Over the last two months, India has increased its testing capacity from 1,000 tests per day in March to one lakh tests daily tests.

Having more than trebled daily testing over a month, India is now gearing up to ramp it to 2 lakh a day. While the daily average has crossed 1 lakh tests, private laboratories, who fought long and hard to be allowed to test, have contributed to less than 20% of the total samples tested daily. This despite the fact that they make up almost 30% of the laboratory infrastructure.

Indian express reported that an analysis of testing records between April 16 and May 23 reveals that while tests in government labs went up by almost 270 per cent from 23,932 to 88,947, for private labs the figure rose more sharply, just under four times, from 4408 to 21450.

But as share of tests, on April 16, private labs did a little over 15 per cent of the total 28,340 tests done that day. And on May 23, that figure was just 19% of the total 1,10,397 tests.

INDIA		New cases	Confirmed Cases	Active Cases	Recovered
Death
Total Today	4531	6566	158333	86110	67692
1 day before	4337	6387	151767	83004	64426
2 days before	4167	6535	145380	80722	60491
Today	194			3106	3266
1 day before	170			2282	3935
2 days before	146			3619	2770

MAHARASHTRA Confirmed Cases Active Cases Recovered                                  Death Today 1897 56948 37133 17918 1 day before 1792 54748 36012 16954 2 days before 1695 52667 35186 15786 TAMILNADU Confirmed Cases Active Cases Recovered                                Death Today 133 18545 8503 9909 1 day before 127 17728 8259 9342 2 days before 118 17082 8233 8731 GUJRAT Confirmed Cases Active Cases Recovered                                Death Today 938 15195 6708 7549 1 day before 915 14821 6767 7139 2 days before 888 14460 6936 6636 DELHI Confirmed Cases Active Cases Recovered                               Death Today 303 15257 7690 7264 1 day before 288 14465 6954 7223 2 days before 276 14053 7006 6771

A total of 194 deaths (1 day before-170, 2 days before-146) have been registered in last 24 hours taking the nationwide toll to 4531 (1 day before-4337,  2 days before-4167). Today 3266 patients were released after recovery (1 day before-3935, 2 days before-2770) that tally 67692 (1 day before-64426, 2 days before-60491) that is 42.45 per cent of patients have recovered.

Within the last 24 hours 86110 active cases (1 day before-83004, 2 days before-80722) is recorded. Today there are 6566 new cases (1 day before-6387, 2 days before-6535) and 158333 confirmed cases (1 day before-151767, 2 days before-145380) is recorded.

Maharashtra still remains the worst-hit state of the country with 56948 confirmed cases (1 day before-54748, 2 days before-52667),1897 deaths (1 day before-1792, 2 days before-1695,) and 17918 recovery (1 day before-16954, 2 days before-15786).  Mumbai alone has over 35,000 cases — higher than any other state. However, in what may come as a relief to the state, Maharashtra has been showing a slight decline in the number of new cases reported in the last two days.

Tamilnadu is the second highest with 18545 confirmed cases (1 day before-17728, 2 days before-17082) and 133 death (1 day before-127, 2 days before-118) and 9909 recovery (1 day before-9342, 2 days before-8731). 

Delhi is again in the third with highest increase observed, with 15257 confirmed cases, 7264 recovery and 303 death.

Gujrat, is in the fourth position and has 15195 confirmed cases (1 day before-14821, 2 days before 14460) and 938 death (1 day before-915, 2 days before-888) and 7549 recovery (1 day before-7139, 2 days before-6636) and release from Hospital. 

Meanwhile, the government is reportedly reviewing the 60-day lockdown period to chalk out strategy after May 30 – the day when the lockdown 4.0 is scheduled to end. According to reports, the Prime Minister’s Office is concerned about the rapidly increasing coronavirus cases as well as the number of people under quarantine.