The coronavirus cases in India continue to spread rapidly as the country has marked significant and consecutive highest jumps in the COVID-19 tally over a major part of the last two weeks. With nearly 10,000 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 count on Friday hit a new high – 2,26,770, getting closer to Italy`s latest tally of over 2.34 lakh.
According to the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, India’s death toll has breached the 6,300-mark as well.
Maharashtra continues to be the epicenter of the coronavirus spread where the number of cases has witnessed an even large spike recently. According to the Health Ministry, Maharashtra has the highest number of cases with well over 80,000 positive cases of infection and more than 2,800 deaths. As many as 2,436 COVID-19 cases were reported from the state in the past 24 hours.
Earlier last week, the Centre announced plans to unlock the country and issued guidelines for the opening of various businesses with social distancing norms. India has been under lockdown since March 25, which was to end on April 14, but was later extended till May 3 then further till May 17 and May 31.
The current phase of re-opening, called ‘Unlock 1’, takes an economic focus. The government intends on being smart about implementing the lockdown in select places so that the economic activity of the country, as a whole, does not take any more hits. The rising number of coronavirus disease cases for the past few weeks in the country has led the Centre to take this call in order to prevent COVID-19 from spreading further.
According to the new guidelines, all activities outside of containment zones have been allowed to resume in a phased manner from June 1. The guidelines will come into effect from June 1 and will be effective till June 30.
The Union Health Ministry on Thursday released the standard operating procedure (SOPs) for malls, restaurants and hotels as they plan to open these establishments under relaxed guidelines from June 8.
The SOPs include measures like allowing only asymptomatic staff and guests inside the premises and proper crowd management.
Here are all the latest coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related updates in India on June 06, 2020 (Saturday):
06:53 IST Saturday, 06 June 2020
Madhya Pradesh: A total of 35 cases of COVID-19 and 4 deaths were reported in Indore on Friday, taking the total number of cases to 3,722 in the district. (ANI report)
06:21 IST Saturday, 06 June 2020
Tripura: 48 more people test positive for COVID-19 in the state, taking total number of cases in state to 695. (PTI report)
06:19 IST Saturday, 06 June 2020
Bihar: Death toll due to COVID-19 in the state rises to 29, number of cases climbs to 4,598 with 146 fresh infections. (PTI report)
Source: dnaindia.com