Question

History of covid-19
Geographical spread of covid-19
India under lockdown​

Answer 1

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ON July 9, when COVID-19 monitoring sites showed a single-day spike of 25,790 cases in India, the biggest so far, the government continued to maintain that there was no “community transmission”.

On the same day, at a Group of Ministers meeting chaired by Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, members were told that India had one of the lowest number of cases and deaths per million when compared with the five worst-affected countries. However, no comparisons were drawn with the world’s most populous nation, China, which had controlled the spread of the virus rather effectively.

“It would perhaps be not fair to compare India to other countries. In terms of absolute numbers, India had 195.5 cases per million population,” the government said in a press release.

However, a Health Ministry official, quoting the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) situation report, told the media that there were 538 cases per million in the country.