After hovering over 18,000 for four days in a row, on Friday the corona landed in 15,000 homes across the country. But there is no reason to be relieved. This is because the graph is upwards in 6 states including Maharashtra. These 7 states account for 7.37 percent of the daily attacks in the country. According to the Union Ministry of Health, 15,510 people have been infected in the last 24 hours. Out of these 15 thousand, 7293 are from Maharashtra. 3254 people in Kerala. Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka around 500. As a result, in view of the Maharashtra Lockdown, a lockdown has been declared in Tamil Nadu till March 31.
This is the average number of infections per day in Maharashtra over the past few days. Maharashtra is already number one in the number of coronavirus cases. Concerned that the situation has returned to normal, the state chief Uddhav Thackeray is thinking of a new lockdown. Says, ‘I don’t want to lockdown again, but I’m helpless. In other words, if the corona infection does not come under control in the state very soon, then the whole of Maharashtra will be locked down again.
According to the state health department, the recovery rate is now 93.95 percent, and the death rate is 2.42 percent. Uddhav has repeatedly appealed to the people of the state to wear masks and exercise caution.
A curfew has been imposed in Maharashtra’s Hingoli district till March 18 after reports of 51 new infections. In Pune too, the government has decided to curfew till March 14. Except for emergency services like government offices, banks, medical agencies, everything will be closed from 7 am.
There were 469 infections in Tamil Nadu in a single day on Sunday. The total number of infections is still 8,51,542. In Chennai alone, 182 people have been newly infected with corona, bringing the total number of infections in the city to nearly two and a half million. Three corona sufferers died on Sunday. So far the total death toll has crossed twelve thousand. Although all three were patients with comorbidities.
According to the estimates, the rate of infection is also increasing in this state. The Tamil Nadu government has imposed a lockdown in the state till March 31 to bring the situation under control, though the process of vaccination has started in the second phase from Monday. Even section 144 has been implemented.
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