9 new States add to Covid surge, 25K +ve on 2nd day in row

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9 new States add to Covid surge, 25K +ve on 2nd day in row

Friday, 10 July 2020 | PNS | New Delhi

9 new States add to Covid surge, 25K +ve on 2nd day in row

Maha, Tamil Nadu and Delhi clock record spike on Thursday

With several States other than the worst-affected trio of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Delhi, clocking record spikes on Thursday, India reported more than 25,000 cases and 400 plus deaths for the second consecutive day.

Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Bihar, West Bengal, Haryana, Kerala and Odisha in addition to Gujarat came with big numbers to push the overall tally of positive cases to 7,94,180 and death count to 21,622.

During the last few days, the virus has spread to the interior beyond the urban clusters and this is reflected in huge number of cases from across the country and emergence of several new hotspots.

Maharashtra crossed 2.30 lakh-mark on Thursday, with as many as 6,875 people testing positive for the coronavirus, while 219 more died of the pandemic in various parts of the State.

With the infections going up from Wednesdays’ count of 6,603 to 6,875 on Thursday, the total number of infected cases climbed up to 2,30,599. With fresh 219 deaths, the total deaths in the State went up to 9,667.

Of the total 219 deaths, Mumbai accounted for 68 deaths, taking the total number of deaths in the metropolis to 5,132 now, while the total number of positive patients rose by 1,268 cases to touch 89,124.

Apart from 68 deaths in Mumbai, there were 66 deaths in Thane, 27 deaths in Pune, 17 deaths in Raigad, eight deaths each in Palghar and Solapur, seven in Jalgaon, four in Nashik, three in Satara, two each in Ahmednagar, Nandurbar and Nagpur, one each in Latur, Jalna, Amravati, Nanded, and one from another State.

With 54,811 infected cases with 1,483 deaths, Thane has emerged as the second worst hit district in Maharashtra.Pune, which has emerged as the third worst affected district in terms of spread of the pandemic, has recorded 33,394 infections and 989 deaths till now.

Delhi recorded 2187 new cases and 47 deaths, which took its total count to 1,08,051 and death tally to 3248.

Tamil Nadu’s seesaw battle with Covid-19 continued on Thursday as 4,231 persons were diagnosed with the pandemic across the State. There was no respite in the death toll also. The day saw 65 persons succumbing to coronavirus in the State.

With 4,231 persons getting infected with the disease, Tamil Nadu has 46,653 active Covid-19 patients as on Thursday. Till date 1.26 lakh persons has tested positive for the pandemic.

According to the medical bulletin released by the State, the number of laboratories to test the samples has gone up to 100, a sign that the Tamil Nadu Government is on an aggressive testing mode. A total of 41,038 persons were tested on Thursday while the number of persons tested till date across the State crossed the 1.42 million mark.

The bulletin said 3,994 persons were discharged from hospitals across the State on Thursday, taking the number of persons discharged till date to 78, 161. Gujarat, the fourth in the list of worst affected States, recorded relatively less 861 cases which added to total of 39,978 coronavirus cases in the State and 15 new casualties taking the death count in the State to 2,009.

Karnataka continued to cause worry with emergence of 2,228 fresh coronavirus cases in the State taking its total count of virus positives to 31,105 and 17 more deaths taking the fatalities due to pandemic to 488.

West Bengal had 1,088 new cases taking its tally to 25,911 with 27 new deaths making casualty count to 854 as Andhra Pradesh registered 1,555 new cases with total of 23, 814 count in the State and 13 fatalities taking the death count to 277.

Relatively smaller State of Haryana had 674 new cases adding to total of 19,364 count with five new deaths taking the toll to 287. Bihar registered 704 new cases reaching the total number in the State to 13,978 and nine deaths kicking up the death count to 109.

In Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan issued an alert to the people that community transmission was staring the State and anytime from now it would become a reality. The State diagnosed on Thursday 339 persons with Covid-19, the highest number to be recorded in Kerala since the first reporting of the pandemic in January.

While Chief Secretary Viswas Mehta opted to stay in his house as part of observation following the diagnosis of his driver with Covid-19, Poonthura, one of the coastal suburbs of the capital city saw the Government deploying armed commandos to prevent the spread of the pandemic. “We are experiencing super spread in Poonthura and the coastal area has been cut off from the rest of the district,” said Vijayan. Super Spread is the term used to denote unprecedented rate of infection, a step closer to community transmission, the Chief Minister explained.

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