Coronavirus cases in India breach 150,000-mark; toll reaches 4,337

There have been “multiple gains” from the lockdown and the most important of them is that it has “decelerated the pace” of the spread of Covid-19, the Union health ministry said on Wednesday even as the death toll reached 4,337 and the number of cases rose to 1,51,767 in the country.

 

 

A total of 6,387 new cases of coronavirus infection and 170 deaths were reported till Wednesday 8 am, according to the ministry’s data. The country has been registering new cases in excess of 6,000