Consequently, compared with the catastrophic second wave, the number of deaths was also less. However, the new variant caused less severe symptoms, evident from the low rate of hospitalisation. The Omicron wave: The discovery of a new, more transmissible Omicron variant triggered the third weave in the country. A COVID-19 pandemic monitoring series devoted to India, providing near term forecasts of the trajectory of the pandemic,and identifying areas at high risk. The second wave, it is estimated, killed 2 lakh people. By April end, the country was reporting over 400,000 cases per day. On April 9, India surpassed Brazil to become the second worst-hit country in the world. The situation was aggravated by a shortage of hospital beds, oxygen cylinders and medicines. Second wave: In March 2021, a catastrophic second wave gripped the country. By February 2021, the daily cases came down to 10,000. In the next couple of months, the Covid-19 restrictions were lifted as the cases declined. India's active caseload stands at 49,015 after 8,148 people recovered in the last 24 hours. During the lockdown, the cases kept increasing and peaked at 90,000 cases per day in mid-September. India records 5,874 Covid cases in 24 hours, 18 per cent lower than yesterday. As the cases continued to rise, the government was forced to impose a nationwide lockdown on March 25, 2020. It uses data from official health websites and news outlets like Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Directorate of Health Services, Kerala, Livemint, Deccan Herald, Economic Times and The Hindu for the information which is crosschecked thoroughly by the students volunteering for the cause.First wave: The first case of the Covid-19 virus was detected in India in Thrissur, Kerala on January 30, 2020. India 525.6k About this data Reuters is collecting daily COVID-19 infections and deaths data for 240 countries and territories around the world, updated regularly throughout each day. This tool gives real-time information on total affected people, saved and died. On the map of India the website is providing live district-wise information with the time-lapse that features where people can see how corona is spreading geographically, all over India.The website also provides the standard statistics which almost everyone provides such as the total number of reported cases, state-wise distribution, etc. India Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries. The World Health Organization has elevated the fast-growing Omicron sublineage XBB.1.16 as a new variant of interest, and says it is outcompeting the previously dominant XBB.1.5 in many regions. To ensure no false reporting, the team is also encouraging its users to report any error in their data. I asked Raghav to think about it and meet me the next day if he wanted to work on it”.Īlso Read: Kerala uses open source public utility to fight COVID-19 How CovIndia worksĬovIndia uses Artificial intelligence to retrieve the relevant information as quickly as possible along with Human Intelligence to ensure that all data is verified before they claim a new case. Talk about fear-mongering! District-wise data would allay fears of people who might be panicking seeing the graphs made by major news outlets. Even worse, all the states were colored red making it look like India was already infected with Corona when there were only 100 cases. All the trackers only provided state-wise data. 1 day ago &0183 &32 The modernization of all societies will need far more resources than our planet can provide, and this makes development a threat. Keeping in view, Raghav NS Ananta Srikar and Rishab Ramanathan students of Mahindra Ecole Centrale, an engineering college in Hyderabad have developed district-wise COVID-19 tracker, CovIndia that can help netizens to know the current state of corona spread.ĬovIndia is India’s only district-wise Covid-19 tracker that can be helpful for people travelling within the country so that they can avoid virus-prone zones and would also help the authorities to mobilize resources more efficiently.ĭr Achal Agrawal, a faculty member under whom this portal was developed writes in a blog post, “We searched and found that there was no tracker available which gave us district-wise data. All new methods are being deployed so that people are aware of the growing number of cases can keep themselves safe. So far there are a total of 728 cases across the nation. India, t he world’s second-most populous nation is seeing huge growth in corona cases.
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