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India reported a record number of new deaths with 4,187. The country also reported 401,078 new confirmed cases, marking the third consecutive day of 400,000 or more cases. [68] CBS News reported that people in India were dying faster than they could be cremated or buried, leading to makeshift crematoriums appearing around the country. [69]
The worst-case scenario according to NYT was 4.2 million deaths; 13.7 times India's official figure in the same time period. [ 46 ] On 12 June 2021, The Economist reported that Christopher Leffler of Virginia Commonwealth University analyses data on excess mortality from different parts of India, showing a rough estimate of between 1.8 million ...
Following this, while addressing the nation for the second time on 24 March, he announced the nationwide lockdown from midnight of that day, for a period of 21 days. [26] He said that the only solution to control the spread of coronavirus was to break the cycle of transmission through social distancing . [ 27 ]
Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the India may refer to these timeslines of the COVID-19 pandemic in India: Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in India (January–May 2020) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in India (June–December 2020) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in India (2021)
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org . Interactive map of confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people.
On 30 April 2021, it became the first country to report over 400,000 new cases in a 24-hour period. [15] [6] Experts stated that the virus may reach an endemic stage in India rather than completely disappear; [16] in late August 2021, Soumya Swaminathan said India may be in some stage of endemicity where the country learns to live with the ...
Post-lockdown, the Government of India introduced a contact tracking app called Aarogya Setu to help authorities manage contact tracing and vaccine distribution. [290] India's vaccination programme was considered to be the world's largest and most successful with over 90% of citizens getting the first dose and another 65% getting the second dose.
The Tablighi Jamaat gathering emerged as one of India's major coronavirus hotspots, [34] On 18 April 2020, Central Government of India said that 4,291 cases (or 29.8% of the 14,378 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in India) were linked to the Tablighi Jamaat, and these cases were spread across 23 states and Union Territories.