India crosses 100,000 daily new COVID19 cases for the first time since the pandemic began

Over 100,000 new COVID19 cases registered in India in the last 24 hours. Amid rising cases, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh release new sets of guidelines to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Gaon Connection
| Updated: April 5th, 2021

The total COVID19 cases in the country now stand at 12 million. Photo: Pixabay

India has recorded more than one lakh (0.1 million) COVID19 cases in the last 24 hours. Today, April 5, 1,03,558 new cases registered in the country. The previous highest daily new cases were recorded on September 16 last year, when 97,894 positive cases were reported. The total COVID19 cases in the country now stand at 12 million (12,589,067). Meanwhile, 478 people have lost their lives to the virus in the last 24 hours taking the death toll to 1,65,101.

Source: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare

The total active caseload has also crossed the seven-lakh (7,41,830) mark. This data was shared by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

Maharashtra continues to report the highest number of cases — 57,074 cases in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra’s Mumbai also saw the highest-ever single-day spike with 11,163 new cases.

On Sunday, April 4, the state government announced a new set of guidelines called — Break The Chain. It will come into effect from 8pm today. The new guidelines are likely to be in place till April 30. Restrictions include a night curfew and a “strict lockdown” over the weekends from Friday 8 pm to Monday 7 am. Shops, malls, schools, colleges, markets, except groceries, medicines will remain closed.

Besides Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh (5,250), Karnataka (4,533), Delhi (4,033), and Uttar Pradesh (4,136) are among the top five states/Union Territories that have reported the highest surge in COVID19 cases in the last 24 hours.

Source: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare

Yesterday, April 4, the Uttar Pradesh government announced a new set of guidelines, as per which, on the report of one COVID19 patient, an area will be declared a containment zone and 20 houses will be sealed; for more than one patient, 60 houses will be sealed; movement restricted for 14 days in containment zones. Today, Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at the Civil Hospital, Lucknow.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reviewed the COVID-19 and vaccination related situation across the country yesterday, on April 4. Modi directed that central teams consisting of public health specialists and clinicians be sent to Maharashtra in view of the high caseload and deaths, and likewise to Punjab and Chhattisgarh because of the disproportionate number of deaths being reported there.

The five-fold strategy of testing, tracing, treatment, coronavirus-appropriate behaviour and vaccination if implemented with utmost seriousness and commitment would be effective in curbing the pandemic’s spread, said Modi. He also highlighted the need to ensure the availability of beds, oxygen, ventilators, testing facilities and timely hospitalization.