India reports over 48,000 COVID-19 infections for a third consecutive day.
With 48,661 cases, India’s Coronavirus tally over 13.85 lakh with the death toll at 32,063.
India on Sunday, registered over 48,000 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, which makes it a third consecutive day for the country to register over 48000 Coronavirus cases. This takes the tally of the country past 13.85 lakh, at 13, 85,522 infections. Deaths in the country were 705, due to the fatal virus, which takes the death toll to 32,063. As per the data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, at present India has over 4.6 lakh active COVID-19 cases, and the total of patients cured and discharged stands over 8.8 lakh.
Due to the rising COVID-19 infections, more areas and cities went into lockdown for varying periods including weekends, in a bid to thwart the rapid spreading of the deadly virus.
Three states hint at community transmission:
Three Indian states have hinted that the rapid rise in infections can be attributed to community transmission, but there still seems to be a reluctance to admit that the novel COVDI-19 pandemic has entered that particular stage. Last week, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that community transmission could be happening is some coastal areas. Earlier, Telangana too hinted at the possibility of community transmissions, after reporting a surge in positive infections in the past few weeks. Maharashtra Health Secretary also refrained from ruling out community transmission and said that the matter was within the purview of the Indian Council of Medical Research and that the states are duly following its’ guidelines.
Globally, over 16.1 million people have been infected with the fatal virus, of which more than 645,000 deaths have been registered.
