NEW DELHI: On Thursday, India added over 3.3 lakh cases. This was the second consecutive day when it added over 3 lakh new cases. No
country so far has added these many cases for two consecutive days.
Data collated by the WHO shows that there have been only two other occasions when new cases added by a country crossed 3,00,000 on a
single day. This happened on December 20, 2020 and January 10, 2021 when the US added 4,02,270 and 3,13,516 new cases on a single day.
If cases continue to grow at this rate then India will add about a million cases in three days — a feat that is unparalleled so far.
No other country has seen such a level of new cases and evidently, the healthcare system of no other country has ever been so overwhelmed by
Covid.
The impact of this level of cases — more than a lakh new cases for the 17th consecutive day is evident on the healthcare system and there is a steady increase in daily fatality.
For the 10th consecutive day, India has witnessed over a thousand daily deaths of which the last three days saw over 2,000 daily deaths. In the past 10 days over 15,000 people have died because of Covid or related complications.
Among states,
Maharashtra continues to lead with 67,013 new cases.