The number of people infected with a coronavirus in India crossed the 600 marks on Wednesday, with the highest increase in 16 new cases reported in Maharashtra, while it is the first positive case with 10 in Karnataka.
As of late Wednesday, the number of people infected was 606. Two casualties were reported – one each in Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
There were nine cases in Kerala, seven in Haryana, six in Madhya Pradesh, five in Delhi, four each in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir, two each in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and one each in Uttarakhand.
Despite being the state with the most infections, there was some cheer for Maharashtra as a Pune couple – the state’s first coronovirus patients – on Wednesday, returning home from members of their residential society after 17 days of hospitalization.
PM Narendra Modi, who addressed the people of his constituency in Varanasi through a video link, reiterated that social balance and staying indoors is the only way and the best option to deal with coronovirus.
“People should pay attention to how deadly this virus is. The disease does not discriminate between rich and poor, ”Modi said, adding that one day after he announced a 21-day nationwide lockdown to break the chain of transmission of coronovirus, which has increased from 4.3 million worldwide in three months Has influenced more people.
Modi underlined the enormity of the challenge facing the country. He called the Mahabharata and said that the epic war was won in 18 days and his government’s attempt to win the war against the coronovirus in 21 days.
He said, “The war of Mahabharata was won in 18 days and our effort is to win this war against the coronovirus in 21 days.”
In Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal reiterated the appeal of people to stay indoors as part of a nationwide lockout as five more people tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen.
In Odisha, the state launched large-scale recruitment of thousands of doctors, nurses, paramedics, and multipurpose health workers to join the fight against the coronovirus epidemic, while in Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee fought NRIs and corporates to fight the epidemic. Appealed to donate money to.
The Jharkhand government has begun to attack the poor, the Jharkhand government has initiated a number of welfare measures, including low economic ‘khichdi’ distribution centers and two-month rations in advance to the beneficiaries of the Public Distribution System (PDS). , So that they can reduce the economic burden.
