India Records 100,000 Coronavirus Infections In One Day, Lowest Number In Two Months

India registered just over 100,000 coronavirus infections on Monday , the lowest number in 61 days, while the Asian country touches 29 million cases since the start of the pandemic and several regions such as New Delhi and western Maharashtra ease restrictions.

The country added 100,636 new cases in the last 24 hours, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health. This number is far from the peak of more than 400,000 cases in May, in the context of a second wave of the virus that caused a collapse of the health system with a lack of ICU beds and medical oxygen to care for the most serious patients. Deaths are also down with 2,427 deaths in the last 24 hours, some 300 less than yesterday, data that contrasts with the more than 4,500 registered at the end of May.

The total number of infections in India now stands at 28.9 million, only surpassed by the United States with 33.3 million according to Johns Hopkins University. Deaths since the beginning of the pandemic stand at 349,186, a figure only surpassed by the United States and Brazil. The positivity rate is also now 6.34%, less than 10% for two weeks and after exceeding 20%   at the beginning of May. The World Health Organization considers a pandemic to be under control in a country if the positivist rate is less than 5%.

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Faced with the decline in infections and deaths, several regions that imposed restrictions to slow the spread of the virus have now begun to withdraw them. This is the case of Maharashtra, whose capital is Bombay and which has gone from being the most affected in the country with 70,000 daily cases at the end of April to registering 12,557 in the last 24 hours. Starting today, the western region begins a de-escalation processin phases after the strict confinement in the region, with different levels of withdrawal of restrictions by districts depending on their positivity rate and the number of ICU beds and available oxygen. 

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Also New Delhi, which experienced a critical situation with full hospitals and lack of oxygen, continued this Monday with a new phase of the process of deconfinement with the start-up of public transport and the reopening of offices to 50% capacity. The vaccination campaign continues its progress, relatively slowly compared to India's population of 1.35 billion, with 1.3 million doses administered in the last day and 232 since January.

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