The year 2020 unofficially became the Corona year. Nearly eight months, the public was made to stay indoors and the working professional worked from home with everything around coming to a standstill with the pandemic.
India is one of the worst-affected nations, globally with Coronavirus pandemic. We are in second place in the list of the countries with more than one crore people catching the respiratory disease.Exactly today in 2020, i.e January 30 the first case of Corona was registered in India. A China returnee became the first-ever infection of the respiratory disease in the country.
The first infection of Coronavirus was identified as a 20-year-old female student who hails from Thrissur, Kerala was admitted to a General department on January 27 with symptoms of dry cough and sore throat.On the 30th of January, she was declared positive for the pandemic. Days after the first infection, two more positive cases of the respiratory disease were reported from Kerala.
Later the virus has spread to nearly all the states in the country, making India one of the severely affected nations with the Coronavirus outbreak.
Looking at the Coronavirus related fatalities, the first fatality was reported on the 12th of March in 2020. A 76-year-old man succumbed to the pandemic, making him the first person in India to lose his life to the pandemic.
In September, India witnessed the peaks of the pandemic with the country adding nearly one lakh fresh cases daily. India has also witnessed the highest fatalities in September.Despite facing the peaks of the pandemic, India has managed to bring down the fresh infections and fatalities gradually. The current average of fresh infections is nearly 13,000.
Dew to the Coronavirus outbreak, the union government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has imposed a series of nationwide lockdowns to curb the pandemic infections.Earlier on January 16, 2021, the centre has launched a massive vaccination against the pandemic to vaccinate the Corona warriors in the first phase of the vaccination drive.