Just one take a look at the numbers reveals the harrowing affect Covid has had on the state because the outbreak in April final yr.
It was on May 6, 2020 that the state first registered over 1,000 each day circumstances. Since then, Maharashtra has been via two peaks, the primary on September 11, 2020 with 24,886 each day infections and the second on April 18, 2021 with 68,631 each day circumstances.
As on June 9, 2021, the state of Maharashtra has recorded almost 58.5 lakh circumstances, of which 1,67,927 are nonetheless energetic infections. The state has additionally registered the grim milestone of over one lakh Covid deaths.
The incontrovertible fact that Karnataka, the second worst-affected Covid state within the country, has lower than half the quantity of infections than Maharashtra offers us a sense of the severity of the crisis that the state has confronted.
Maharashtra with a inhabitants of 12.4 crore is the third most populous state of India after Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. This is barely lower than the inhabitants of Japan, which ranks 11 globally in phrases of inhabitants.
So, when it comes to dealing with the pandemic, one can say that the state of Maharashtra has managed a inhabitants which is greater than or equal to that of a number of other international locations.
Here are 5 charts which present the place Maharashtra would stand in phrases of the severity of the Covid crisis if it were a country.
Total quantity of circumstances
If Maharashtra were a country, it could be the world’s 4th worst-hit in phrases of the entire quantity of circumstances
Total quantity of deaths
In phrases of whole quantity of deaths, Maharashtra can be the tenth worst hit country.
Case Fatality fee
In phrases of the case fatality fee, which suggests the quantity of deaths per 100 circumstances, Maharashtra can be the third on the earth after solely US and Japan
Worst-hit amongst nations with comparable inhabitants
If we examine Maharashtra to other international locations which have comparable inhabitants, will probably be the worst-hit in phrases of the quantity of circumstances and third worst hit in phrases of quantity of deaths
Worst-hit amongst nations with similar-measurement economies
Maharashtra as a country would even be the worst-hit in comparison to other international locations which have the identical measurement of their economies in phrases of buying energy parity.
