Coronavirus in Maharashtra: On Thursday, Maharashtra recorded a whopping 25,883 new situations of COVID-19, which is the highest the state has noticed ever due to the fact the pandemic very first struck India in March final year. Before this, the highest quantity of every day situations that Maharashtra had recorded was 24,886 situations on September 11, 2020, according to a report in . However, what is a larger lead to of concern is the truth that Maharashtra is not the only state from exactly where higher numbers of every day situations are getting reported.
States like Punjab, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Tamil Nadu are all reporting pretty higher single-day case counts for this year. This is regarding simply because it indicates the possibility of the nation witnessing a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, with the infection spreading pretty swiftly even as an substantial vaccination drive is getting undertaken. Meanwhile, other states like Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar and Chhattisgarh have also began to show a spike in situations, with Bihar obtaining reported more than one hundred new situations on Thursday. This marked the very first time in one and a half months that the state reached triple digits for the quantity of new situations.
A slight relief, even so, is that barring Punjab and Maharashtra, none of the states is anyplace close to recording new situations comparable to the peaks they had accomplished final year.
India on Thursday collectively recorded almost 40,000 situations, for the very first time due to the fact November 28, whilst more than 160 deaths have been reported.
Notably, Maharashtra has been showcasing a considerably steeper rise in the quantity of coronavirus infections in this second wave of the pandemic, than it had final year. This year, the state was recording much less than 3,000 situations a day till February 9, but it swiftly started reporting an rising quantity of situations, breaching its highest quantity of situations only 40 days later. This is in contrast with final year’s wave when it crossed the 3,000-mark for the very first time at the starting of June, only to attain its highest quantity of situations throughout that wave on September 11 more than 4 months later.
What is more worrisome is the truth that it is uncertain no matter if this new higher that Maharashtra touched on Thursday would be a new peak, or no matter if the situations would continue to rise in the state like they have been for the previous one week.