Following the relaxations in lockdown 4.0, India witnessed the highest surge in Covid-19 cases
The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) has said that India witnessed the highest number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in a single day after 6,977 new infections were reported in the last 24 hours beginning Sunday.
The details were shared by MoHFW during their daily media briefing today, i.e., Monday, May 25, 2020. The total number of cases in India have surged to 1,38,845 and there have been 4,025 casualties.
Maharashtra continues to be the worst hit State with 52,667 cases and 1,695 casualties. The State saw 2,436 fresh cases and 60 casualties in the past 24 hours. Of this, 1,430 cases and 38 casualties were registered in Mumbai. Tamil Nadu, the second most impacted State has more than 17,082 cases and 11 casualties. In the past 24 hours, Tamil Nadu reported 805 fresh cases. Of these, 549 were from Chennai. Gujarat is the next most impacted State with 14,468 cases and 888 casualties. In the past 24 hours, it reported 405 fresh cases and 30 casualties.
Meanwhile, Delhi reported its highest-ever single day spike of 635 new cases, taking the total tally of cases in the city to 14,053. Bihar reported 143 fresh cases which took the tally of total cases to 2,650. Karnataka, on the other hand, reported 93 cases.
In other developments, Chief Minister of Delhi – Arvind Kejriwal said that the number of COVID-19 cases have increased ever since relaxations were allowed in lockdown 4.0.
Addressing a Press Conference, Kejriwal said, “Coronavirus cases have increased in Delhi due to relaxations in lockdown. But there is nothing to worry about unless the mortality rate or the number of serious cases rises rapidly. If people contract the virus and recover, then there is nothing to worry about. Till yesterday, there were 13,418 positive cases of coronavirus. Out of this, 6,540 have recovered and 6,617 are active cases.”
He also said that 2,000 new beds will be made available in private hospitals from today. About 3,314 people are undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at home.
Separately, a total of 532 flights took to the sky today, after restoration of domestic travel operations. The first flight to take off was a Delhi-Pune flight which took off at 4:45 a.m. Around 82 flights from Delhi got cancelled due to unpreparedness of other States. The furious travellers blamed the airlines for not informing them in advance. They got to know about cancellation on reaching the airport. The Delhi Airport handled a total of 125 departures and 118 arrivals.
Taking it to twitter, the Minister of Civil Aviation – Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted, “From no domestic passenger flights yesterday to 532 flights & 39,231 passengers today, action has returned to Indian skies. With Andhra Pradesh set to resume operations from tomorrow & West Bengal from 28 May, these numbers are all set to increase further.”
From no domestic passenger flights yesterday to 532 flights &
— Hardeep Singh Puri (@HardeepSPuri) May 25, 2020
39,231 passengers today, action has returned to Indian skies.
With Andhra Pradesh set to resume operations from tomorrow & West Bengal from 28 May, these numbers are all set to increase further.@MoCA_GoI @PIB_India
The Central Government is planning to re-open schools in a zone-wise manner. The schools in Green and orange zone will be opened first and only for students beyond Standard VII. The morning assemblies won’t be held in schools. There are speculations that schools will run full-fledged from July, 2020 with 30% attendance and social distancing norms, possibly in two shifts. Teachers would be trained to follow and help others follow the guidelines.
