Limited Lockdown 5.0 on cards, Malls & Metro may start |
India crossed the mark of 1.5 lakh Covid-19 cases by registering 6,366 fresh cases on the 27th of May, taking the country`s total to 1,54,141. While it took 109 days to breach the mark of one lakh cases, it took just nine days to cross the level of the next 50,000 cases, indicating a huge spurt in new cases. The death count in India has also nearly doubled in the last sixteen days to 4,337. Amid the rising numbers, the central government is likely to extend the lockdown in some states by another two weeks after the fourth phase of Lockdown gets over on the 31st of May. The lockdown is expected to be extended in the 11 cities that account for nearly 70 percent of the Covid-19 cases in the country. This includes the six major metro cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Kolkata, as well as Pune, Thane, Jaipur, Surat and Indore. The continuing rise in cases poses a severe challenge for India`s strained medical capacity and overburdened health system, leading to questions about the effectiveness of the over two month lockdown as it has not managed to flatten the curve despite slowing the rise in cases.
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