Covid-19 pandemic: 7% of Covid-19 cases in Ahmedabad have ended in deaths

While India reported its highest single-day death toll of 357 on June 11, it has seen more than 200 fatalities on each of the 11 days in June so far

The global count of confirmed coronavirus cases is currently at 7.48 million, of which more than 2,00,000 cases are in the US alone. There have been 419,560 casualties in the pandemic so far, while 3.8 million people have recovered. With more than 135,000 fresh cases in 24 hours, June 10 saw the highest single day rise in the world. In India, the case tally is expected to cross 300,000 very soon. There currently are 137,448 active cases, while 8,102 patients have died, and 141,028 patients have been cured. India saw its biggest single-day spike on June 10, with 9,996 new cases being reported in a day.

Here are some statistics on the pandemic:

#1. Russia crossed 500,000-case mark, was slowest in reaching this grim milestone

Russia, which has the third-highest number of confirmed cases in the world, has joined the US and Brazil among countries with more than 500,000 coronavirus cases. Among the three, Russia has taken the longest to reach the grim milestone — 132 days. By comparison, the US took 82 days, and Brazil just 60 days from their respective first cases being reported.

#2. India registered more than 350 deaths, in highest single-day addition so far

Russia, which has the third-highest number of confirmed cases in the world, has joined the US and Brazil among countries with more than 500,000 coronavirus cases. Among the three, Russia has taken the longest to reach the grim milestone — 132 days. By comparison, the US took 82 days, and Brazil just 60 days from their respective first cases being reported…Read Full Story With Graph

Explained: How Covid-19 pandemic upended 20 million lives in Mumbai

Although the coronavirus pandemic’s toll has been much lower, there are grim parallels

When the bubonic plague arrived on ships in 1896, death and fear emptied half of Mumbai. Ensuing labour shortages devastated the city’s cotton mills, the mainstay of the contemporary economy. Although the coronavirus pandemic’s toll has been much lower, there are grim parallels. Almost a million workers who built Mumbai’s skyline — from the Trump Tower to skyscrapers owned by global firms such as Blackstone Group LP on erstwhile mill land — have fled to their native villages, short of money after a stringent government lockdown brought the economy to a standstill.

A plague-era law is being used to draft doctors into the coronavirus fight, and calls are increasing to decongest infection hotspots including Asia’s most crowded slum. A megapolis of about 20 million, few cities face the reckoning around labor and life that Mumbai must now contend with. When authorities resumed some public transport on Monday, television channels showed dozens of people rushing to board a bus, a sign of how desperate residents are to return to their livelihoods even as the city remains India’s Covid-19 epicenter.Six Mumbaikars, as the city’s residents are known, share how the virus has changed their lives and workspaces:

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The Union Leader:

J R Bhosale, 79, has seen a lot during his six decades with Mumbai’s railways. A labor strike in 1974 — the world’s largest recorded industrial action — suspended services for 20 days and terrorist bombs in 2006 kept trains quiet for 24 hours. Yet, under the lockdown, passenger services have been halted for more than two months. Authorities are concerned about the risk of contagion because on a typical day trains run so crowded that latecomers would hang out of doorways…