Daily Current Affairs 24th April 2020

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Today’s Important Topic’s For UPSC Preparation 1. LOCKDOWN ENSURED GROWTH OF CASES REMAINED LINEAR, SAYS GOVT. 2. INDIA FOLLOWING U.S. TRAJECTORY, SAYS CHINESE DISEASE EXPERT. 3. DRDO DEVELOPS MOBILE VIROLOGY LAB. 4. RBI TO RESTART OPERATION TWIST TO MANAGE YIELDS. 5. TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER RESTRICTING IMMIGRATION.

LOCKDOWN ENSURED GROWTH OF CASES REMAINED LINEAR, SAYS GOVT India has managed to maintain a linear growth of COVID-19 cases over the onemonth period during its lockdown. The Union Health Ministry said even as the country reported over 1,409 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of cases to 21,700 with 16,689 active ones. There have been over 4,324 recoveries, which takes the recovery rate to 19.89 % the Health Ministry said. A total of 686 deaths have been reported, with 34 in the past 24 hours. There are 12 districts that did not have a fresh case in the last 28 days. Since April 21, eight new districts have been added including — Chitradurga (Karnataka), Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh), Imphal West (Manipur), Aizawl West (Mizoram), Bhadradri Kothagudem (Telangana), Pilibhit (Uttar Pradesh), SBS Nagar (Punjab) and South Goa (Goa). Also, 78 districts from 23 States/Union Territories have not reported any fresh cases during the last 14 days. State Health Departments have put the nationwide death toll at 718 with 23,034 cases of which 17, 428 are active ones. Maharashtra has 5,304 active cases, with Mumbai reporting 478 new cases and eight deaths on Thursday taking the death toll to 168 and 4,232 cases.

Strategies Successful: Despite a 24-fold increase in testing, the percentage of positive cases is not rising phenomenally when compared to the percentage of positive cases at the beginning of the lockdown. The growth of cases has been more or less linear, not exponential. 1/8


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