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On 15 April 2021, a report in Dainik Bhaskar's Bhopal edition stated that the official number of COVID-19 deaths in Bhopal during the last 5 days were 21, however cremations had taken place for 356 COVID-19 cases. [39] India Today and The New York Times found similar discrepancies in Bhopal in April. [40] [34]
The first cases of COVID-19 in India were reported on 30 January 2020 in three towns of Kerala, among three Indian medical students who had returned from Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic. [10] [11] [12] Lockdowns were announced in Kerala on 23 March, and in the rest of the country on 25 March. Infection rates started to drop in September. [13]
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In 2021 during the 2nd Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic the Colleges & educational Institutions of Andaman & Nicobar Islands was still continued follow the offline mode of teaching. Siddhanth Rai Sharma a Students Leader of ABVP demanded to close all the colleges of Andaman & Nicobar Islands for the safety of the Students community of Islands.
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]
By 11 May 2021, the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Update had reported 34 countries with detections of the subvariant, [18] however by 25 May 2021, the number of countries had risen to 41. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] As of 19 May 2021 [update] , the United Kingdom had detected a total of 418 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Kappa variant. [ 21 ]
In May, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that a new coronavirus variant from Singapore was extremely dangerous for children and could result in a third wave in India. From 16 May to 13 June 2021, as well as 22 July 2021 to 10 August 2021; Singapore entered lockdowns , known as "Phase 2 Heightened Alert", similar to 2020.
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.