India has more than 12 lakh active instances at the present. (Express Photo by Kamleshwar Singh)
Coronavirus India Lockdown LIVE tracker, Covid Live updates: The ugly reality of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic has hit house as India overtook Brazil to develop into the second worst-hit nation in the globe. India has arrived on this grim milestone as states are reporting a higher caseload day just after day. While Maharashtra continues to be the most impacted state in India at the moment, other states have also shown a disturbing rise in the instances. In terms of metro cities, by Monday evening, Delhi had recorded more than 11,000 instances. This caseload is far worse than Mumbai.
Photos of migrants have began appearing on news channels and social media confirming the worst fears of numerous. As Maharashtra contemplate difficult lockdown, people today have began migrating to their hometowns. Many have stated that though the image might not be as undesirable as what we saw in 2020, issues nonetheless look quite bleak. Migrants have been observed at the railway stations, bus stops in Maharashtra, Delhi and other states moving back to their villages.
While the overall health infrastructure cries for assist, the government has authorized a different corona vaccine. Russia’s Sputnik V will be obtainable quickly, reports say. As overall health specialists say that people today will have to be dissuaded from gathering in huge numbers, Uttarakhand is hosting one of the biggest religious congregation on the Earth – Kumbh Mela 2021. The Indian Express reports that on Monday on the occasion of Somvati Amavasya’s ‘Shahi Snan’, more than 28 lakh people today visited the Mela website to take the holy dip! Similar massive numbers had been observed in the election rallies in West Bengal with numerous political parties flaunting the ‘huge support’ on social media.
While there is no official word on the hyperlink amongst the ‘double mutant strain’ and the fresh Covid surge, reports recommend that it is increasingly becoming complicated to detect the strain even by the RT-PCR test. The ICMR want to do more study on this to bring any conclusive proof about this.
As the globe battles the second wave, right here are the newest updates on the corona lockdown, restrictions and other breakthrough research from India and across the globe: