India Coronavirus Cases Numbers: But it is the first time that the number of days taken to add five lakh cases has remained stagnant. The journey from 20 lakh to 25 lakh cases was also made in eight days. Before that, every five lakh milestone had been coming in lesser number of days.
India Coronavirus Cases: With nearly 70,000 new cases detected on Friday, the number of confirmed infections of novel Coronavirus has crossed the three-million mark now. It has taken just eight days for the number of confirmed infections to increase from 25 lakh to 30 lakh.
But it is the first time that the number of days taken to add five lakh cases has remained stagnant. The journey from 20 lakh to 25 lakh cases was also made in eight days. Before that, every five lakh milestone had been coming in lesser number of days.
Meanwhile, there seems to be an extended resurgence of the epidemic in Punjab. The state is adding new cases at the fastest rate in the country right now. The growth rate of 4.41 per cent per day (7-day compounded daily growth rate) is significantly higher than the national rate of 2.34 per cent
The number of confirmed cases in the state has crossed 40,000 now. More than 70 per cent of this, close to 29,000 cases, have been detected in the last one month. With more than 1,000 deaths so far, Punjab also has among the highest death rates in the country.
In an attempt to contain the growth of cases, Punjab has still been implementing weekend lockdowns, but it hasn’t been very effective. State chief minister Amarinder Singh has said if the growth did not come down in the next week, some “stringent steps” would have to be initiated from September. After an initial burst of cases, mainly triggered by the return of devotees from Nanded in Maharashtra, the epidemic had slowed down to a remarkable extent in Punjab. The new cases being detected had fallen into single digits at that point. But the cases have been climbing up very fast in the last one and half months.
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