Vacation Darmiyan Project Amalikaran Kaamgiri Babat Paripatra Date:3/05/2021
The COVID-19 pandemic in India is part of the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first COVID-19 case in India, which originated in China, was reported on January 30, 2020.
India currently has the highest number of confirmed cases in Asia. In April 2021, India has the second-highest number of confirmed cases in the world (after the United States) with more than 17 million reported cases of COVID-19 infection and 211,853 deaths as of April 30, 2021.
The first cases of COVID-19 in India were reported in the cities of Thrissur, Alappuzha, and Kasargod, all in the state of Kerala, among three Indian medical students who had returned from Wuhan. The blockades were announced in Kerala on March 23 and in the rest of the country on March 25. As of mid-May 2020, five cities accounted for approximately half of all reported cases in the country: Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chennai, and Thane.
On June 10, recoveries from India exceeded active cases for the first time. Infection rates began to decline in September, along with the number of new and active cases. Daily cases peaked in mid-September with more than 90,000 reported cases per day, falling to fewer than 15,000 in January 2021. A second wave that began in March 2021 was much larger than the first, with a shortage of vaccines, hospital beds, oxygen cylinders, and other medicines in some parts of the country.
At the end of April, India led the world in new and active cases, with more than 400,000 cases reported on April 30, 2021. India started its vaccination program on January 16, 2021, and by April it was administering 4 million doses a day. India has licensed the British Oxford-AstraZeneca (Covishield) vaccine, the Indian BBV152 (Covaxin) vaccine, and the Russian Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use.
On January 12, 2020, the WHO confirmed that a new coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a group of people in Wuhan, Hubei, China, which was reported to the WHO on December 31, 2019.
On January 30, 2020, India reported its first COVID-19 case in Thrissur, Kerala, which increased to three cases on February 3, 2020; they were all students returning from Wuhan. Other than these, there was no significant increase in broadcasts in February. On March 4, 22 new cases were reported, including 14 infected members of an Italian tour group.
Transmissions increased during the month after several people with travel histories to the affected countries and their contacts tested positive. On March 12, a 76-year-old man with a travel history to Saudi Arabia became the first fatality of COVID-19 in India.
A Sikh preacher, who had a history of traveling to Italy and Germany, became a super spreader by attending a Sikh festival in Anandpur Sahib on March 10-12. 27 cases of COVID-19 were traced to him. More than 40,000 people in 20 Punjab villages were quarantined on March 27 to contain the spread.
On March 31, an event of the Tablighi Jamaat religious congregation in Delhi, which had taken place in early March, emerged as a widespread event, after numerous cases were tracked across the country. On April 18, the Ministry of Health announced that 4,291 cases were directly related to the event. As of April 4, some 22,000 people who came into contact with the Tablighi Jamaat missionaries had to be quarantined.
On May 2, around 4,000 stranded pilgrims returned from Hazur Sahib in Nanded, Maharashtra, to Punjab. Many of them tested positive, including 27 bus drivers and drivers who had been part of the transportation arrangement. On May 13, 1,225 pilgrims had tested positive.
In July 2020, it was estimated, based on antibody tests, that at least 57% of Mumbai slum-dwellers may have been infected with COVID-19 at some point.
A government panel on COVID-19 stated in October 2020 that the pandemic had peaked in India and could be under control by February 2021. This prediction was based on a mathematical simulation known as the "Indian supermodel" , assuming India catches up with the herd. immunity. That month, a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, Lineage B.1.617, was detected in the country.
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