The situation is pretty scary rn. We had already finished 3 lockdowns and somehow the number of cases/day are still sky rocketing at 6000 per day. Now there are several relaxations given to lockdown. With the huge population density and unawareness among the people in towns and villages, are we heading towards a huge second wave before the first one flattens? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.scroll.in/latest/963028/indigo-grounds-crew-for-14-days-after-passenger-on-chennai-coimbatore-flight-tests-covid-19-positive #covid-19 #coronavirus
Given the population density, it is expected.
Fatality rate in India will remain low regardless. Most of the population is young.
As long as there are enough beds for patients. Once the system is overwhelmed it becomes a disaster
It will (and is likely already) a problem in places like Mumbai. It will be extremely hard to contain it but hopefully they can deploy emergency medical resources to a sufficient degree to hold off the peak.
I mean SARS-cov2 is a highly transmissible pathogen. As long as susceptible people and infected people intermingle, the contagion will spread. It’s not rocket science
Anyway your Government at least would bring your citizens home, while CCP set five ones policy to limit flights to China, though everything becomes normal there.
They upped their testing game very late. They should have started testing aggressively since the first lockdown on March 25th. At that time the criteria for testing was you must have travelled from abroad in the last 14 days. Since they did not test, many asymptomatic people continued spreading the disease even during lockdown, this was true especially with dense slums and housing societies. The cases will increase rapidly now since they upped their testing game. Right now, the cases are actually reducing in most states except the top 5. As long as a dense city like Mumbai performs better than another dense city like NYC, we've actually done a good job, because in a density like Mumbai, even if 1 person has it, 10000 others are going to get it from him, even with the strictest lockdowns.
Yep. It’s too late to up the testing. Now it’s going to be whole new game as the lockdown 4.0 is almost ineffective
There were no/limited kits to buy in the initial days. US bought a consignment enroute to Chennai and another one enroute to Europe. That’s why the next was picked by flight and it had quality issues... It is indeed a mammoth task and I think India is doing decently with large and diverse population with diverse opinion. Making so many people stay home is commendable. However I also know for sure how we are under reporting and purposefully not testing. I know a company who has test kits for few months and is not allowed to test by local govt, not sure why but the state is declared green now. Probably to contain Panic or buy time to prepare healthcare. Now almost every state has made arrangements to provide medical support through the lockdown. Vaccine is far, we will have to fight this on our own and for most the body will fight. For the rest, medical support system is being built. Hope for the best with whatever we have!
Honestly though- there’s only so much you can do in a country of 1 billion. Indian government did the best they could (albeit screw ups like letting migrant workers fend for their own-Huge mess up). It’s unrealistic to expect India to have the same containment measures as New Zealand or Singapore. So far fatality rates are low in India and hopefully that continues or decrease further.
A decent job would have been half of the deaths we have already had. There were too many goof ups for anyone to seriously believe that the government was honest and the lockdown was in earnest. It was too late and eventually another attempt at gaining popularity without really doing anything solid. Pretty sure the government will soon use it as an excuse for the years long battered economic situation. Kuch nahi to cover up.
Only so much u can do? fk that. Hw about taking steps to control the population?
Cases are only skyrocketing now because they have reasonable testing capacity. Things will probably get pretty bad pretty soon. For some reason, they decided not to test early even though they locked down quite quickly. In the densest cities, there will be madness, I think. India’s case rate per million is at about 100. Expect that to rise 10 times in the next month
Way lower than most of the countries in the world with extremely high GDP
How many deaths?
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6000 infections per day is nothing. It will be 6 million shortly.