For second consecutive day, India reports highest number of cases

Delhi, West Bengal and Kerala reported their biggest single day spike on Thursday and with Maharashtra recording yet another day of huge surge in number of cases and death it was the second consecutive day when the country recorded biggest spike of 7,228 cases.

Delhi reported 1,024 new cases and 13 deaths on Thursday and this is for the first time that the national Capital has reported more than 1,000 cases. Other than Maharashtra, only Gujarat, and now Delhi have reported 1,000 plus cases in a day. Delhi has now 16,281 confirmed cases with a death count of 316.

After the development in Delhi, the Haryana Government decided to seal its borders with the national Capital.

“We will keep our border with Delhi completely sealed due to increasing Covid-19 cases,” Haryana Minister Anil Vij said.

After reporting between 2,000 and 2,200 cases for the three days, Maharashtra logged in 2,598 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, taking the total number of coronavirus cases almost to 60,000 in the State at 59,546. The toll in the State also rose to 1,982 after 85 casualties were reported in the last 24 hour.

Reports said 36 new cases of coornavirus were reported in Mumbai’s Dharavi in the last 24 hours. The total number of cases rose to 1,675 on Thursday in the densely-populated area.

West Bengal, which is battling with coronavirus and destruction cause by Amphan cyclone, reported 344 new coronavirus cases which is the highest single-day spike in cases so far. The total number of cases in the State rose to 4,536, which includes 2,573 active cases and 1,668 discharges.

Kerala is losing the initial advantage it had scored in the battle against the pandemic. The number of persons tested positive for coronavirus in the State on Thursday is an all time high, according to Chief Minister Pinarayi  Vijayan.

He began his daily briefing with the statement that 84 persons tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday and there were 1,088 confirmed Covid-19 patients in the State as on date.

“Two hundred ten persons were admitted to various hospitals in the State and this took the number of coronavirus patients hospitalised to 526. There are 1, 15, 297 persons under observation in the State. Out of them, 1,14, 305 are under home/institutional quarantine. Till date we have tested 60, 605 samples,” Vijayan disclosed during the briefing.

Tamil Nadu Health Minister C Vijayabhaskar said a total of 827 people tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, including people who travelled from other States. The States’s total number of coronavirus cases rose to 19,372.

Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said 25 new coronavirus cases have been reported in the State on Thursday, taking the total number of cases to 856. Active cases stand at 762.

The Punjab Government on Thursday said 19 new coronavirus cases have been reported in the State, taking the total number of cases to 2,158. There are 172 active cases in the State so far.

The Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir has now joined the club of States with over 2,000 plus cases of coronavirus. 

On Thursday, a total number of 115 cases were detected while one more patient died due to Covid-19 in Kashmir valley, taking the death toll to 27.

According to media bulletin, out of 115 fresh cases,  101 were reported from Kashmir division while 14 cases were reported from Jammu division. The final tally of coronavirus cases stood at 2036.

Out of these, 1150 are active cases. A total number of 301 cases are active in Jammu and 849 in Kashmir division.  A total number of  859 patients have recovered so far.