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The number of cases shown in India has increased from two million to nearly 3 million in just over two weeks.
Health officials in several states are linking virus cases to the 10-day Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota, which attracted thousands of participants this month despite the pandemic.
Kris Ehresmann, director of infectious diseases at the Minnesota Department of Health, said in a briefing Friday that at least 15 cases in Minnesota were known to have come from participants in the demonstration. Seven cases have been known in Nebraska, according to CNN reports.
South Dakota fitness officials said this week that they had traced several cases to a popular bar along Sturgis Main Street, where footage showed thousands of people gathering the demonstration without mask.
An investigation into the geographical footprint of the participants of the rally through knowledge of the location of an unnamed cell phone showed that the occasion attracted participants from all over the country, leading to fears that infections could spread further. The collection-related migration style map showed participants traveling to Sturgis from locations throughout the continental United States and vice versa.
The demonstration ended last Sunday, but fitness officials warn it will be some time before the extent of related epidemics can be measured, as it would possibly take days for symptoms to appear in inflamed people.
Ehresmann said Friday that he hoped to see more cases recorded as more data on the outbreak and the search for long-term contacts became available.
As India approaches a total of 3 million cases of coronavirus this weekend, the third largest in the world after the United States and Brazil, the South Asian country continues its delicate balance between allowing public life and primary festivals to continue while adding restrictions to thwart the virus.
On Friday, the country’s Supreme Court allowed three Jainist temples to open for a two-day festival in Mumbai, India’s city hardest hit by the pandemic, leading to fears that devout shrines could be super-emitting sites.
After the petitions were disseminated through some devout groups, the court last month reopened the places of worship, arguing that the live broadcast of the rituals was an insufficient replacement for physical visits to the sites.
But many of the country’s regional governments continue to impose restrictions on public gatherings. In the northern state of Punjab, the leader ministers up to 4 people.
India, a country of 1.3 billion people, registered 69878 new instances of coronavirus on Friday, the fourth consecutive day on which more than 60,000 new instances were added. By Saturday morning, he had recorded a total of 2,975,700 cases and 55,794 deaths in a Times database.
The country underwent one of the strictest blockades in the world since late March, with all those ordered to remain indoors, businesses closed and public transport interrupted. But as the measures went high economic and social cost, government officials began to lift some restrictions in the hope of alleviating suffering.
Complaints have been filed across the country over the country over the shortage of hospital beds, and many have accused the government of failing to make the most of the profits made from the closure.
As public procurement and other spaces with little social distance were allowed to reopen, the instances began to accumulate in congested communities. Now, the number of cases shown in India has increased from two million to nearly 3 million in just over two weeks.
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