Reiterating that India continues to be in the local transmission phase despite the country registering a spike from 100 to 1,000 cases in 12 days, the Union Health Ministry on Monday said India’s precautionary and early lockdown is proving to be a step in the right direction.
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India registered more than 60 new cases and four deaths in the past 24 hours, with a total of 1,071 cases and 29 deaths so far, the Ministry said, clarifying that no orders had been passed to “conduct large scale disinfection of people but protocol has been put in place for sanitising large public spaces, etc.”
Joint Secretary in the Ministry Lav Agrawal told the press that the growth graph of COVID-19 cases shows that India had taken 12 days to go from 100 to 1,000 cases.
“This graph in developed countries with less population and better facilities had risen anywhere between 3,000 to 8,000 cases starting from the same line and in this 12-day initial period. India is seeing this result because of early measures of isolation and lockdown. The take away from this is that we are on the right path and that we should stay on this. But this is a daily battle and non-compliance by even a single individual can put us back,” he said.
According to reports from State Health