India has been reporting with more positive cases for the Coronavirus each day in its territory as the graph has been pacing on the upward direction amid the nationwide lockdown and restrictions that have been rolled out by the Central government to flatten the curve towards curbing the spread of the global pandemic. The more positive cases have been contributing to increase the death toll and apart from the rise in the death toll, the country has been recording more cases that are getting recovered from the virus each day.
According to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India has reported with 1,965 cases so far including 1,764 active patients, 150 discharged and cured patients and 50 deaths and of these 50 deaths, 12 were reported in the last 24 hours with fresh deaths in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Telangana, and Punjab.
Through the data issued by the Health Ministry, the state of Maharashtra still tops the table with the most number of Coronavirus patients in the country. India's richest state has reported with 335 cases including 42 recoveries and 13 deaths so far. On Thursday, Dharavi, which is Asia's largest slum that sits on Mumbai had marked its first fatality which has now emerged as a new concern for the state government as the deceased Dharavi man has identified to have no travel histories. After the slum has reported its first death, the authorities had sealed and closed the entire area where he lived which has as many as 300 flats and hundred shops.
Following Maharashtra, Kerala is at second place in India with 265 cases including 25 recoveries and two deaths and the state of Tamil Nadu comes next with 234 cases including six recoveries and one death. The states like Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, and Rajasthan have reported with three figured cases of 152, 113, 110, and 108 respectively.
The Central government has been carrying out the intense process of tracing the people who attended the Tablighi Jamaat conference that was organized in Delhi last month as more than two thousand people both Indians and foreign nationals including symptomatic people who attended the conference had scattered across various states and the cities and most of the cases that were tested positive for the virus in South Indian states especially Tamil Nadu and Telangana have directly or indirectly linked with the conference as they have either attended the event or came to the direct contact with already affected patients.
On Thursday, Telangana reported with 30 fresh cases positive for the virus and three deaths and all these three deceased had attended the conference in Delhi and the Delhi government has identified and quarantined 275 foreign nationals who attended the Jamaat Conference and Tamil Nadu has currently 234 cases including 110 fresh cases that were reported on Wednesday and of these 234, 190 have been identified to have attended the conference.
Amid the crucial developments, Prime Minister Modi has convened the video-conferencing meeting with all the Chief Ministers on Thursday to review the situation in the country. According to ANI, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh are also present.
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