India says lockdown results positive |
Confirmed coronavirus cases in India saw their highest single-day surge on Monday as the tally went past 1,250 with 227 new cases being reported. On Sunday evening, the number of positive cases stood at 1,024. According to the numbers released by the Health Ministry on Monday evening, the tally stands at 1,251. 49 of these cases are foreigners while 46 of them are being assigned to states to initiate contact tracing. Kerala has the highest number of cases at 202, followed by Maharashtra at 198. There are currently 1,117 cases in the country. 47 private laboratories have also been given approval for conducting COVID-19 tests and in the last three days, 1,334 tests have been done in private labs. Despite sporadic COVID-19 cases with no travel of contact history, the government insisted that the outbreak in the country was “technically, still at local transmission” stage and not progressed to the community transmission stage which witnesses an exponential rise in infections. Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health Lav Aggarwal, briefed the media saying, “As per our analyses, India moved from 100 COVID-19 patients to 1000 patients over a period of 12 days. During the same 12 day period, several developed countries which are smaller than India saw an increase in patients between 3,500 and as high as 8,000.
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