Over 600 Cases in a Single Day of COVID-19: Coronavirus count sees highest single-day jump in India has seen a dramatic surge in the number of Infected Cases from COVID-19. 600 fresh new cases have been witnessed in the last 24 hours, where Delhi, Maharastra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh has seen the most number of fresh cases in a particular day (from 3rd April to 4th of April).
However, the total number of cases(of COVID-19) in India has been rose to 2,902, which is almost three thousand (as per the new data).
A new controversy has emerged, as, around 650 people who had attended a conference at Delhi’s Nizamuddin, tested positive in 14 states in the last two days, the health ministry said.
Delhi witnessed a record surge in the COVID-19 count after 167 tested positive for coronavirus in the capital. There were 386 coronavirus patients in Delhi. Out of the total cases, at least 259 were linked to a religious conference in Delhi that held last month.
“If we look at cases related to Tableeghi Jamaat, in the last two days around 647 confirmed cases related to it have been found in 14 states — Andaman and Nicobar, Assam, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh,” said Lav Aggarwal, joint secretary, health ministry.
The death toll in the country has climbed to 68 after 12 fresh casualties were reported from various parts of the country.
India is under a 21-day nationwide lockdown to mitigate the spread of the virus. Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged all Indians to switch off all other lights and stand at doors or balconies to light candles or diyas, torches or mobile flashlights for 9 minutes this Sunday. “Experience the collective resolve, the collective superpower of 130 crore Indians. This will give us the strength to fight, as well as the confidence to win, in this hour of crisis,” PM Modi said.
