India traced its first COVID-19 case exactly one year ago today in Kerala. India, which is also the world’s second most populated country, crossed the mark of 1.7 crore COVID-19 cases since 30 January 2020 (day when the first case was found in Kerala) and recorded 154,000 deaths.
However, India gave approval to its two home-made? vaccines and vaccinated 33 lakh people till 29 January 2021.
Originated in China, the virus soon took over the world and infected more than 10 crore people worldwide. The World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 crisis as an epidemic at the beginning of March. By the end of the month, WHO called it a pandemic and looked like the world just stopped as many countries called for a total lockdown.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on 25 March 2020, imposed a nation-wide lockdown in India to stop the spread of COVID-19. First for a weekend, then for 21 days and at last, it went on for nearly four months limiting the movement of 130 crore residents of India.
India has a very low death rate and a high recovery rate in terms of COVID-19 cases. At 1.7 crore total cases, 1.4 crore people recovered causing the death of 154, 000 patients, which was less than 1% of the infected and 2% of the total population.