Ministry of Health & Family Welfare / youtube.com
The number of people infected with coronavirus in India exceeded 1 million people
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare / youtube.com
The number of infected by coronavirus in India exceeded 1 million people. As follows from the data on the website of the Ministry of health of the country, just caught 1 003 832.
Most patients were detected in Maharashtra (281 284 thousand), and another 156 thousand 369 cases recorded in Tamil Nadu and 118 thousand 645 – Delhi. This number of infected included also representatives of other countries who got infected in India.
Treatment are 342 473 people, or slightly less than one third of the total number of cases, 25 602 people died. The highest mortality was in Maharashtra, where he died 11 194 people. 3 545 people died in Delhi and 2236 of the deaths took place in Tamil Nadu. Another 635 756 people have recovered after being infected with coronavirus and was discharged.
According to the Johns Hopkins University, the number of infected India is in third place in the world. In this position she was released July 6, displacing Russia, when the number of infected in the country has close to 700 thousand In the first place by the number of cases is the United States, which recorded 3.5 million patients on second – Brazil with 2 million infections.
Active growth of the number infected in India began in may and is still ongoing. In this regard, some local authorities were forced to impose a quarantine. So, the week-long quarantine was introduced in Bangalore on July 14, in Bihar state, the quarantine will last two weeks, and in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the authorities began to impose strict limits on weekends, which will last until the end of July. In other States there has been a practice of imposing restrictions on smaller territories to curb the spread of the virus, which can cover a territory of several houses.