New Delhi (India): According to the Internal Govt. Assessment suggested that India can touch the highest peak of coronavirus cases in the first week of May, then the number will decline, sources from the Home Ministry said. The sources also added that the states which have implemented hard lockdowns have fared better when it will come to the crisis are seeing the results to be declining.
Punjab, Rajasthan, and Bihar were the first few states which announced the lockdowns earlier to avoid the high jump in the fatal rates cases and went for the partial curbs like Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat. India is going to ramp up its testing procedure as the next one week is very crucial for the country. In order to implement these functionalities, all the patients having symptoms of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) will be tested, a Senior Bureaucrat said to media.
According to the Bureaucrat, the Govt. has expected a continued rise in the cases of COVID-19 in the next few days. The numbers will definitely increase and tests will be done. The tests should also be ramped for the patients who have been isolated, which are increasing everyday.
Since the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has extended the lockdown to 3rd May from 14th April, the country has added around 2800 positive cases well past 12000. Around 36,000 people have either been isolated in the govt. facilities or are home quarantined. Till date, i.e. Thursday, 16th April, nearly 3.6 lakh people are in isolation zone or home quarantined.
According to the govt. officials, the patients in the isolation zone are tested, but the major challenge is to stop the spread of sporadic disease for the cases who are scattered. The nationwide lockdown is working extensively to stress the fact, the official added by giving the examples of three states.
Rajasthan was the first state to announce the complete lockdown, which has 1,076 infected patients and has 221 recoveries. According to a data collected by Home Ministry that the state has 7,448 patients in isolation till Thursday. Punjab, on the other hand has 188 patients out of which there were 27 recoveries and 13 fatal cases. Around 11,000 people have been given isolation facilities. Bihar reported 72 positive cases out of which 29 recoveries and one death report. Over 12,000 people have been given isolation facilities due to the epidemic coronavirus.
Madhya Pradesh has the highest deaths reports of 53. There are 938 positive cases and 9,198 people have been given the isolation facility.
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