Tale Of Four Cities! Mumbai, Pune, Indore, Delhi Account For 60 Percent Of India's COVID-Deaths
On Wednesday, the death toll due to the COVID-19 outbreak in India stood at 377 according to the data available on the website of the Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare and 399 according to the state-wise data collected by crowdsourcing platforms.?
While the number of people testing positive and subsequently the death toll from the infection has rapidly risen the distribution of it is highly disproportionate. In fact, a handful of cities in India have taken the brunt of it.?
Unsurprisingly, Mumbai which accounts for 1,756 out of the 2684 COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra has also the highest mortality rate. On Tuesday, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region which includes Thane, Vasai, Panvel, Navi Mumbai and Mira Bhayandar, together had registered 127 of these deaths.?
The second-highest mortality rate due to COVID-19 in India comes as a surprise - Indore in Madhya Pradesh. As of Wednesday, Madhya Pradesh's economic capital had a death toll of 37. This includes two doctors who also succumbed to the infection after they came into contact with COVID-19 positive patients.?
Indore also accounts for 413 of the 741 COVID-19 cases in Madhya Pradesh. The high number of COVID-19 cases in Indore, much higher than bigger cities like Bengaluru and Chennai has come as a surprise to many. But locals allege that in the initial days the local body failed to screen people coming from outside, which has resulted in a high number of cases.?
Another city in Maharashtra, Pune which has so far recorded 35 COVID-19 deaths has the third-highest mortality rate.With a death toll of 30 national capital Delhi had the fourth-highest COVID-19 death rate in India.?
The four cities combined have a death toll of 229. Two other cities, Ahmedabad, with 13 deaths, and Hyderabad, with 12 have also seen a high mortality rate.?
According to data available on the Health Ministry's website, there are a total of 9756 active COVID-19 cases in India while 1305 have recovered from the infection and have been discharged from hospitals.?
With the number of cases predicted to spike in the coming days India has extended the nationwide lockdown till May 3. The lockdown which came into effect on March 25 was originally set to end on April 14, however many state chief ministers had warned that opening up the country at this point will result in an alarming increase in the number of cases and had appealed for an extension.
