The death toll in Sweden when the country crossed 5,000 cases was the highest in the world. (Rep Image)

Coronavirus cases in India took 15 days to go from 100 to 1,000, which was the second slowest in the world. Unfortunately, in the following days, the country witnessed a steady rise in positive cases.

India Today Data Intelligence Unit (DIU) scanned the World Health Organization’s daily situation reports and found that after crossing 1,000, it took only nine days for Covid-19 cases to jump to 5,000 in India. Also, India’s death toll at 5,000 cases is higher than some of the countries worst affected by the pandemic.

According to the WHO daily situation reports, India had 1,071 confirmed cases of coronavirus by March 30, which jumped to more than 5,200 by April 8 evening. Thus in nine days, the number of coronavirus cases in India increased almost five times.

For India, the death toll after crossing 5,000 cases is also the eighth highest in the world. Several dreadfully affected countries, such as the United States, Spain, China, France and Iran, had fewer deaths than India after crossing 5,000 cases.

Fatalities at 5,000 cases



The death toll in Sweden when the country crossed 5,000 cases was the highest in the world. On April 3, Sweden had 5,466 confirmed cases of coronavirus with 282 deaths. Prime Minister Stefan Löfven had warned the country might be counting its dead in thousands.

Netherlands follows Sweden where the death toll at around 5,000 cases was 276. The same was 234 in Italy, 233 in the United Kingdom, 220 in Belgium, 203 in Denmark and 201 in Brazil.

With 149 fatalities, India comes eighth for the highest number of deaths at 5,000 cases. India is followed by France (148), Iran (145), Spain (136), China (132) and the United States (100).

After crossing 5,000 cases, Germany had the lowest number of deaths. On March 17, Germany had 6,012 cases and reported 13 deaths.



The jump from 1,000 to 5,000

DIU has found that as of April 8, there were 27 countries where the number of Covid-19 cases was more than 5,000. Interestingly, when India crossed 1,000 cases, there were 42 countries with more than 1,000 cases. This also highlights how fast the number of cases went up in India from 1,000 to 5,000.

China, the epicentre of the pandemic, which has reportedly controlled the situation, had the fastest jump in this regard. At four days, China had recorded the fastest jump from 1,000 to 5,000 cases.

Apart from China, there were four countries where the jump from 1,000 to 5,000 cases happened in less than a week (or within 6 days). In Spain, Iran and Turkey, this jump took place in five days, while in the United States, it happened in six days.

There were 13 countries, including India, where this jump took place in 7-10 days.

Italy, where the death toll due to coronavirus is the highest, witnessed the jump from 1,000 to 5,000 cases in seven days. United Kingdom, Switzerland and South Korea too witnessed this spike in seven days.

France, Germany, Austria and Israel took eight days for the spike. The 1,000 to 5,000 jump took nine days in Canada, Brazil, Portugal and India. There were another nine countries where this jump took more than 10 days.

The jump took 10 days in Russia and 11 in Belgium. In Australia, Ireland and Chile, it took 13 days. Sweden, which has not announced a lockdown amid 7,500 cases, took 17 days for the 1,000 to 5,000 jump. Czechia too took 17 days.

In Norway, the jump took 19 days, and in Denmark, 22 days. Interestingly, Japan, which took 29 days to go from 100 to 1,000 cases, has a little more than 4,200 confirmed Covid-19 cases. Japan has not announced a lockdown either.

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