Sixty-six per cent of persons are presently in favour of a whole lockdown in 15 excessive coronavirus load districts, a survey confirmed. On June 12, the determine stood at 74 per cent. Equally, 69 per cent residents stated partial lockdown is required in these districts with growing coronavirus instances and having 500 lively instances, the LocalCircles survey stated. The respondents are in favour of re-imposing a strict lockdown in these excessive viral load districts (as recognized by Niti Aayog) in order that the unfold of coronavirus within the nation might be slowed down.
The highest 15 districts with highest virus load embrace Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Thane, Pune, Indore, Kolkata, Jaipur, Surat, Hyderabad, Aurangabad, Jodhpur, Gurugram and Chengalpattu.
Maharashtra just lately introduced a lockdown extension until July 31 and Nagaland prolonged it until July 15. Tamil Nadu additionally introduced a complete lockdown in Chennai, Madurai, and surrounding areas until July 5 and from July 6 to July 31. Chennai will revert to pre-June 19 relaxed lockdown. The survey acquired over 16,000 votes from 233 districts of India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his handle to the nation, at present highlighted how an growing variety of folks weren’t observing social distancing and never carrying masks which might result in additional enhance in instances of COVID-19, particularly as India goes into the monsoon season.
In the meantime, India reported 418 deaths and 18,522 new coronavirus instances within the final 24 hours, the well being ministry stated. With this, optimistic instances in India stand at 5,66,840, together with 2,15,125 lively instances, three,34,822 recoveries and 16,893 deaths. The Indian Council of Medical Analysis (ICMR) information suggests whole 86,08,564 instances have been reported thus far, together with 2,10,292 samples examined previously 24 hours.
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