covid-19 pandemic in madhya pradesh covid-19 pandemic in madhya pradesh the first four cases of the covid-19 pandemic in jabalpur, madhya pradesh were confirmed on march 20, 2020. as of august 14, 2021, madhya pradesh has confirmed a total of 791,998 cases, and has recorded 10,514 deaths. covid-19 pandemic in madhya pradeshmap of districts with confirmed casesmap of covid-19 deathsdiseasecovid-19virus strainsars-cov-2locationmadhya pradeshfirst outbreakwuhan, chinaindex casejabalpurarrival date21 march 2020 (3 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 1 day)confirmed cases791,998 (14 august 2021)active cases4 (26 november 2021)recovered781,353 (14 august 2021)deaths10,514 (14 august 2021)fatality rate1.3%territories51 districtsgovernment websiteofficial website www.mohfw.gov.in timeline as of august 13, 2021, covid-19 vaccines have been administered to 36,739,380 people in madhya pradesh. april 2021 16 april - researchers found that 5% of covid-19 infections in the state were caused by the double mutation variant and 6% by the uk variant. 25 april - the 'corona curfew' that was imposed in bhopal of madhya pradesh to tackle the surge in covid-19 cases was extended until may 3, 2021. background on 12 january 2020, the world health organization (who) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in wuhan city, hubei province, china. the who was first notified of these cases on 31 december 2019. the case fatality ratio for covid-19 is much lower than sars, but the transmission rate is significantly higher, resulting in a significantly larger loss of life. lockdown