On Day 31 of the nationwide lockdown, India can hope to see light at the end of the tunnel. The Centre has claimed that if the current trend continues India will be able to bend the curve of novel coronavirus before May 3 – the end of Lockdown 2.0. The hope finds further ground as the Ministry of Home Affairs has announced that shops selling non-essential goods in municipal areas can reopen. Click here to know what will open and what will remain closed from Saturday.
This comes, even as the country on Friday recorded 1,752 fresh cases taking the total number of infected people to 23,452 even as doubling rate of the disease improved to 10 days from 7.5 reported earlier this week. The death toll from the infection rose to 723 with 37 fatalities reported since Thursday evening
It is the biggest single-day spike in the number of cases in India and it comes on the eve of the month of Ramzan.
But the good news is that India’s recovery rate has reached 20.52 per cent and the mortality rate is limited to 3 per cent, which is less than the global average of around 7 per cent. The Centre, in a presentation issued at the daily presser, claimed that the Covid-19 curve in India will bend by May 3.
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