By Vineet Kr. Dikshit

NewsGate Press Network

Sooner or later modern history timeline will be known by a newer reference – BC or AC – Before CoronaVirus or After CoronaVirus. And the indexing year could be 2020 AD.

At least this is what the new world order is speaking at specially after the latest General Assembly meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO).

The two day virtual meeting of  WHO saw United States at loss of words after Europe stated that ‘its not a proper time to whiplash WHO (and China) while blaming them for the virus spread.

While top economies are taking time to re-start in wake of COVID19 pandemic, back home, the Indian scenario walks into a tight suspense corner over handling of the virus crisis.

With each passing day number of positive cases keep surging ahead touching a new high figure.

Story on the 23rd May of 2020,  Saturday, was not different.

PTI was quoted in the media  – ‘India saw the biggest spike for the second consecutive day with 6,654 new infections in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to over 1.25 lakhs, while the toll rose to 3,720 after 137 more deaths, the Union Health Ministry had said’.

And then came the news from Punjab where state under Capt. Amarinder Singh notched-up two good scores under his command – prevented a large section of migrants from traveling out of Punjab and bringing 70 percent of industrial units back into operational mode.

News also came-in from Delhi. Not a happy one – number of positive cases going up along with increase in number of containment zones.

The only solace is  – as the Ministry of Health pointed out-  that a total of 51,783 patients have recovered till date.

“Thus, around 41.39 percent COVID19 cases have recovered so far,” a Health Ministry added.

Going strictly by the figures, of the 137 deaths reported since Friday morning, 63 were in Maharashtra, 29 in Gujarat, 14 each from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, six from West Bengal, four from Tamil Nadu, two each from Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, and one from Haryana

Of the total toll of 3,720, Maharashtra tops the tally with 1,517 deaths, followed by Gujarat at 802, Madhya Pradesh at 272, West Bengal at 265 and Delhi at 208.

Timeline changing fast and every day a newer point of reference emerge.