In Mumbai, India, a health worker helps people do screening tests for the new crown.
The second wave of India’s new coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic is coming on fiercely, with single-day added cases breaking 100,000 yesterday. The Maharashtra provincial government, where the epidemic is most severe, has taken strict lockdown measures and asked stores to close after triggering several chamber of commerce representatives to take to the streets in protest today.
India’s second wave of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19, new coronavirus pneumonia) epidemic is rapidly deteriorating, yesterday added cases in a single day exceeded 100,000 cases; according to the report released today by the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the past 24 hours also added 96,982 cases, of which 8 provinces such as Maharashtra (Maharashtra) added cases accounted for 80.04% of the overall added cases. 80.04%.
Maharashtra province has added 47,288 cases in the past 24 hours, continuing to be the provincial administrative region with the most cases added in a single day in India.
In order to control the epidemic, the Maharashtra government has declared all stores closed, and the implementation of weekend closure orders in cities with serious outbreaks, and the implementation of curfew orders from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. the next day, the degree of strictness and India’s national closure orders implemented last year is close to, today triggered Mumbai, Pune (Pune) and a number of representatives of local chambers of commerce to take to the streets to protest.
Indian media Zee News reported that the representatives of the chambers of commerce who participated in the street protest said that last year’s national blockade had already ruined their business, and now the restriction will completely destroy their operations, “We are against the blockade… If we close our stores under these circumstances, we will all starve to death.
Some Taiwanese businessmen in Mumbai and Pune told the Central News Agency that they have allowed their employees to work from home to prevent the epidemic from invading their offices; however, some managers of foreign companies said they still let their employees work normally.
In addition, the New Delhi city government, considering the deterioration of the epidemic, today also announced that from today to April 30, the implementation of the curfew from 10:00 pm every night to 5:00 am the next day; but the mayor of New Delhi Kejriwal (Arvind Kejriwal) said that according to the current situation, New Delhi has not yet considered the implementation of a city-wide lockdown, is closely monitoring the situation of the epidemic.
Kejriwal stressed that the decision to impose a citywide lockdown will be made only after proper public consultation.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has recommended that the Indian government immediately adjust its vaccination strategy and has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to vaccinate all people over the age of 18, and to do so as free of charge as possible, in order to increase vaccination rates, as the second wave of the new pneumonia epidemic in India is rapidly deteriorating.
The Indian government has allowed people over the age of 45 to receive vaccinations since April 1.
India’s Health and Family Welfare Minister Harsh Vardhan today held a meeting via video with 11 provincial and municipal health ministers to discuss ways to control the outbreak.
Vardhan was quoted by Indian media News18 as confirming that, according to serial genetic testing, 80 percent of the new coronavirus in Punjab is a British variant; the surge in cases in Punjab may be related to local elections, weddings and other large events and farmer demonstrations and protests.
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