The final 10,000 sufferers had been detected over a interval three days (File)
New Delhi:
The variety of coronavirus circumstances in India crossed the 50,000 mark immediately — greater than 4 months after the primary case was detected in Kerala. The final 10,000 sufferers had been detected over a interval three days.
The whole variety of circumstances is now 50,545, the utmost of them from Maharashtra. More than 14,000 individuals have recovered and greater than 1,650 individuals have died.
Maharashtra presently has 16,758 circumstances, of which 1,233 circumstances had been reported immediately. A bit of the sufferers are from Mumbai, which has to date reported 10,714 circumstances.
Gujarat has the second highest numbers, 6200-plus, adopted by the nationwide capital, which has greater than 5,000 circumstances. Delhi is adopted by Tamil Nadu, the place the determine has crossed 4,000.
The extremely contagious virus, which made an look in China’s Wuhan in December and have become a worldwide pandemic in March, had reached India in January. The first case was detected in Kerala on January 30, the affected person was a scholar who was learning on the Wuhan University.
The numbers began capturing up in March, pushing state after states to announce restrictions days earlier than the Centre introduced the countrywide lockdown on March 25.
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