The first case of COVID-19 in India, which originated from China, was reported on 30 January 2020. India currently has the largest number of confirmed cases in Asia, and has the second-highest number of cases in the world after the United States. The pandemic has left a severe impact on Indian economy, leading to a negative growth rate for the first time in decades. India emerged as the world’s second largest manufacturer of PPE during the pandemic.
About COVID-19 pandemic in India in brief
The first case of COVID-19 in India, which originated from China, was reported on 30 January 2020. India currently has the largest number of confirmed cases in Asia, and has the second-highest number of cases in the world after the United States. The per day cases peaked mid-September in India with over 90,000 cases reported per day. Infection rates started to drop significantly in September, and the number of daily new cases and active cases started to decline rapidly. The pandemic has left a severe impact on Indian economy, leading to a negative growth rate for the first time in decades. India emerged as the world’s second largest manufacturer of PPE during the pandemic. India has over 30 anti-COVID vaccines in various stages of development and the first of these is expected to be introduced in early 2021. In July 2020, India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting claimed the country’s case fatality rate was among the lowest in theworld at 2.41% and \”steadily declining\”. As of 10 September 2020, Lakshadweep is the only region which has not reported a case. In March, after the lockdown was imposed, the United Nations and the World Health Organization praised India’s response to the Pandemic as ‘comprehensive and robust’ The lockdown was justified by the government and other agencies for being preemptive to prevent India from entering a higher stage which could make handling very difficult and cause even more losses thereafter. Other commentators have raised concerns about the economic fallout arising as a result of thePandemic and preventive restrictions.
In June, India was ranked 56th of 200 countries in a report by Deep Knowledge Group. The report noted the government’s swift and stringent actions, emergency policy-making, emergency investment in health care, fiscal stimulus, and investment in vaccine and drug R&D and gave India a score of 100 for the strict response. It also noted that India had tremendous capacity to deal with the outbreak owing to its vast experience in eradicating smallpox and polio. A Government panel on CO VID-19 announced in October that the pand epidemic had peaked in India and may come under control by February 2021. The first case was reported in Kerala, which rose to three cases by 3 February; all cases were from students returning from Wuhan, China, which were all infected from an Italian tourist group. On 22 March, India observed a 14-hour voluntary public curfew at the insistence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On 4 March, new transmissions were reported, including 14 new people infected by an Italian group of tourists. On 3 March, the WHO confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in a Chinese city. On 5 March, there were no significant rise in transmissions from these people. On 6 March, cases were reported in Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Pune and Kolkata. On 8 March, Mumbai, Delhi and Ahmedabad reported new transmissions.
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