The all India tally, however, did not take into account one death
each reported on Wednesday by state officials in Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh.
The total number
of coronavirus
cases in India rose to 606 on Wednesday as authorities beefed up
preparedness to fight the pandemic with a chain of hospitals of the Army
ordnance factories and central paramilitary forces earmarking over 2,000 beds
for isolation and treatment of people affected by COVID-19.
In addition, the
Hamirpur district administration in Himachal Pradesh took over all the ten
hostels with 2,000 rooms of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) for
creating an isolation centre, an official said in Shimla.
A 2,200-bed
state-run hospital in Kolkata has stopped admitting new patients who are
suffering from other diseases and was discharging patients whose condition had
improved as part of efforts to create a dedicated isolation centre, another
official said in Kolkata.
Addressing people
of his constituency in Varanasi via a video link, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
reiterated that social distancing and staying indoors were the only way out and
the best option to deal with coronavirus.
“Around one lakh
people infected with coronavirus are recovering, this also needs to be
highlighted,” he said.
“People should
focus on how deadly this virus is. This disease doesn't discriminate between
rich and poor," the prime minister said, a day after he announced a 21-day
nationwide lockdown to try halt the spread of the coronavirus. The lockdown
came into effect from midnight.
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