March 29, India Holi Festival… It’s hard to find a mask wearer According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India, the cumulative number of corona19 confirmed cases in India on that day increased 93,000,249 to 1,2485,000,509 in total.
The number of deaths increased by 513 during the day, and the number of deaths was 164,000.
The number of confirmed cases in India per day peaked at 97,000 on September 17 last year, and since then it has continued to decline, reaching the level of 8,000 to 9,000 in February of this year.
However, from mid-March, it increased sharply again, and on that day, it rose to the 90,000 mark.
About half of the new infections come from western Maharashtra, one of India’s richest states. Maharashtra is home to Mumbai, India’s “economic capital”.
From the evening of the 5th, Maharashtra announced that it will cease operation of shopping malls, cinemas, and bars for the time being, and will introduce a complete blockade on the weekends.
The cumulative number of confirmed cases in India is the third largest in the world after the United States (38.38 million) and Brazil (12.95 million), but if the trend is now, it is expected to surpass Brazil again sooner or later.
Indian local election campaign… Many people without masksRegarding the recent’second epidemic’, experts analyze that amid the spread of a mutant virus with strong infectious power, people’s quarantine posture is weakening and the spread is accelerating.
As the Corona 19 crisis lasted for more than a year, most of the Indians have become indifferent to quarantine at all.
At the recently held’Color Festival’ Holly and the Hindu festival’Kumb Mela’, many crowds enjoyed the festival without masks, and local election campaigns in West Bengal are also crowded.
The Ministry of Health of India announced on the 24th of last month that a’double mutation’, which appears together with mutant viruses E484Q and L452R, was found in a sample taken in Maharashtra, and the mutant virus is known to be more contagious.
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