India’s richest state, Maharashtra, has announced stringent COVID-19 restrictions from Monday, after a rapid rise in infections now accounting for more than half the daily new cases in India.
The state, which includes the financial capital, Mumbai, will shut down malls, cinemas, bars, restaurants and places of worship from Monday evening.
Authorities will also impose a complete lockdown on weekends, Nawab Malik, a minister in the state government, told reporters on Sunday after a cabinet meeting.
Malik said the government will also impose a night curfew across the state from 8pm to 7am from Monday, allowing only essential services to operate during those hours.
A year after first Covid-19 victim, India has over 158,000 deaths 2 minutes read
New Delhi, Mar 12 (efe-epa).- India on Friday completed a year after the Covid-19 claimed its first victim in the country that has since become the world’s second-worst affected nation due to the pandemic with more than 11.3 million infections and over 158,000 deaths.
However, the overall fatality rate is relatively lower than other worst-affected nations considering its population of 1.35 billion and housing some of the world’s most densely populated cities in the country.
A year ago, on Mar.12, a 76-year-old died man in Kalaburagi of the southern Karnataka state.
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About 400 million Indians have no access to the Internet. Far fewer women have access to cellphones and Internet services. (Photo: AFP)
The Lal Gumbad Basti is a stone’s throw from a 14th century Sufi saint’s tomb and tree-lined Panchsheel Park, one of South Delhi’s toniest neighbourhoods. Most families who live in this slum don’t have toilets or taps at home; every morning, there are long queues outside the few community toilets that exist. Few have piped water. The 3,000-odd people who live in the basti are used to being invisible. They eke out a living as daily wagers, in odd jobs, and are part of that amorphous space called the “informal sector”.
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Led by Maharashtra, Indiaâs COVID-19 Case Load Is Rising Again
The uneven data, uneven quality of data and uneven access to existing data have together made it difficult to validate various claims made by political leaders and other commentators.
A medic takes samples from a man for COVID-19 testing, at APMC market in Navi Mumbai, Friday, March 5, 2021. Photo: PTI
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New Delhi: Indiaâs COVID-19 case load is rising again. According to publicly available data, Maharashtra appears to be reporting the highest number of daily new cases by state â 11,141 in the last 24 hours and 21,328 in the last 48 â followed by Kerala (2,100), Punjab (1,043), Karnataka (622), Gujarat (575) and Tamil Nadu (567). The country as a whole reported 18,650 new cases. Some 1.85 lakh cases are currently designated âactiveâ.