New Delhi: The quantity of new instances of coronavirus in the nation stood at 3.48 lakh and 4205 deaths have been recorded in the final 24 hours. This was the very best quantity of deaths in a single day. A giant share of the brand new infections and fatalities have been recorded in rural India which has develop into a trigger for concern.
Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary on Wednesday (May 12) mentioned how the second wave of the pandemic has affected the villages throughout the nation. He additionally highlighted the plight of the villagers who’re struggling as a result of lack of medical aid.
The fee of an infection in the nation shouldn’t be taking place because the virus has now unfold from the cities to the villages. This has been primarily noticed in 13 states together with Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.
The an infection fee in the agricultural areas of these states has left the city areas behind. It factors in direction of an enormous disaster.
In Maharashtra, the quantity of new instances is round 24,000 per day in city areas, whereas in villages this determine is greater than 30,000.
Similarly in Uttar Pradesh, the brand new instances in villages are about twice that in cities.
In Rajasthan, out of about 12,000 new instances, the cities are recording solely about 5000 instances and the remaining are being registered in the villages.
Similar conditions have been discovered in Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Jammu Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.
There are 6.5 lakh villages in the nation housing a inhabitants of about 90 crore. The scenario is certainly fairly worrying.
There are 11 states the place the quantity of infections is greater than ever in the villages. Among them, Punjab tops the checklist, the place 49 % of the brand new instances are being discovered in villages. In Karnataka, this determine is 44 % and in West Bengal, it’s 47 %.
These figures clearly point out that the virus has unfold in the villages.
To make issues worse, there are restricted take a look at centres and medical amenities in the villages. In many locations, the villagers need to journey about 50 to 60 km to the district headquarters to get examined for COVID. The well being centres are additionally not ample.
In many villages, people need to stroll about 2 km simply to get ingesting water. They are compelled to exit of their homes, which isn’t advisable in this pandemic.
In such a scenario, it is extremely essential that the federal government take particular measures to take examine the unfold of the virus in the villages.
