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These regional satraps are snakes, Naveen, KCR, Jagan etc. Will support sanghis no matter how wrong they may be.
 
India has been witnessing a spike in the number of coronavirus disease cases. In the last nine days, the country has recorded more than 22,000 Covid-19 cases daily.

According to Worldometers, due to the rapid spread of the disease, India’s share in daily global cases has reached 12 per cent.

India on Saturday reported 27,114 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. Globally, the figure stood at 2,14,741, according to Worldometers. This is 12.6 per cent of the global cases.

In fact, an analysis of the daily trend shows India has been continuously recording over 11 per cent of the global cases in the last few days.

The trend has been rising since June 30, when India’s share to cases in daily global cases of the coronavirus disease was 10.4 per cent.

India added nearly 29,000 (28,637 to be exact) cases of coronavirus infection on Sunday, pushing the country’s Covid-19 tally to 8,49,553. The death toll too climbed to 22,674 after a record 551 Covid-19 fatalities were recorded in the last 24 hours, according to Union health ministry data.

The number of recoveries stands at 5,34,620, while there are 2,92,258 active cases of coronavirus infection presently in the country, the data at 8 am showed.

This was the third consecutive day that Covid-19 cases in the country have increased by more than 26,000.

Of the 551 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 223 are from Maharashtra, 70 from Karnataka, 69 from Tamil Nadu, 34 from Delhi, 26 from West Bengal, 24 from Uttar Pradesh, 17 from Andhra Pradesh, 12 from Bihar, 10 each from Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir, nine from Telangana, eight each from Assam and Punjab and seven from Haryana.

The health ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.

Maharashtra has reported the highest number of Covid-19 cases at 2,46,600 followed by Tamil Nadu at 1,34,226 Delhi at 1,10,921, Gujarat at 40,941, Uttar Pradesh at 35,092, Karnataka at 36,216 and Telangana at 33,402.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/indi...-shows-data/story-9hzX5fqvauEyugFM7wJkXL.html
 
India reports record surge of 28,637 new coronavirus cases

India's coronavirus caseload is nearing 850,000 with a record surge of 28,637 in the past 24 hours, prompting authorities to announce a weeklong lockdown in the key southern technology hub of Bangalore.

The new confirmed cases took the national total to 849,553. The Health Ministry on Sunday also reported another 551 deaths for a total of 22,674.

India has overtaken Russia in the number of cases and is currently behind the United States and Brazil, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Southern Karnataka state, whose IT hub Bangalore is home to Microsoft, Apple and Amazon offices, extended Sunday lockdowns to one week beginning Tuesday.

New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Pune are among the key Indian cities witnessing a surge in infections. Several states also have announced stringent lockdowns in high-risk areas.
 
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India is generating huge amounts of medical waste

India's Covid-19 caseload is rising, and people have been urged to wear face masks even when they are outdoors.

But the directive has created another problem - there is no system of safely discarding Covid-19 waste. Rubbish collectors have complained that people are mixing used gloves and masks with other waste, and it's putting the waste collectors lives at risk.

Workers say that they need training and safety gear to properly handle hazardous waste.
 
In just three weeks, India went from the world's sixth-worst affected country by the coronavirus to the third, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

The South Asian country's fragile health system was bolstered during a stringent months-long lockdown but could still be overwhelmed by an exponential rise in infections.

India has tallied 878,254 infections and more than 23,174 deaths, with cases doubling every three weeks. On Sunday, the country reported its highest single-day tally of more than 28,600 cases.

More than 250,000 samples are being tested daily after months of sluggishness, but experts say this is insufficient for a country of nearly 1.4 billion people.

"This whole thing about the 'peak' is a false bogey because we won't have one peak in India, but a series of peaks," said Dr Anant Bhan, bioethics and global health researcher.

He pointed out that the capital New Delhi and India's financial capital, Mumbai, had already seen surges, while infections had now begun spreading to smaller cities as governments eased restrictions. The actual toll would be unknown, he said, unless India made testing more accessible.

Dubious data
The Ministry of Health said on Thursday India was doing "relatively well" managing COVID-19, pointing to 13 deaths per million people, compared with about 400 in the United States and 320 in Brazil.

But knowing the actual toll in India is "absolutely impossible" because there is no reporting mechanism in most places for any kind of death, said Dr Jayaprakash Muliyil, an epidemiologist at the Christian Medical College in Vellore who has been advising the government.

Official data shows 43 percent of the people who have died from the coronavirus were between the ages of 30 and 60, but research globally indicates that the disease is particularly fatal to the elderly, suggesting to Muliyil that many virus deaths among older Indians "don't get picked up" or counted in the virus death numbers.

'No central coordination'

In India, public health is managed at a state level, and some have managed better than others. The southern state of Kerala, where India's first three COVID-19 cases were reported, has been held up as a model.

It isolated patients early, traced and quarantined contacts and tested aggressively.

By contrast, Delhi, the state that includes the national capital, has been sharply criticised for failing to anticipate a surge of cases in recent weeks as lockdown measures eased.

Patients have died after being turned away from COVID-19-designated hospitals that said they were at capacity. It led the Ministry of Home Affairs to intervene and allocate 500 railway cars as makeshift hospital wards.

But as the capital rushes to conjure new beds, officials admit that they are worried about the lack of trained and experienced healthcare workers.

According to Jishnu Das, a professor of economics at Georgetown University, there is "no central coordination" to move healthcare staff from one state to another, exposing India's relative inability to use data to guide policy decisions.

"The one big thing that we're learning from this pandemic is it takes any cracks in our systems and it drives a chisel to them. So, it's no longer a crack, it's a huge chasm," Das said.

India's role in global fight

India has seven vaccines in various stages of clinical trial, including one by Bharat Biotech that the Indian Council on Medical Research pledged would have results from human trials by August 15, the country's Independence Day.

The top medical research body quickly backtracked, but regardless of whether India comes out on top in the global race for a vaccine, the country will play a critical role in the world's inoculation against COVID-19.

The Serum Institute of India in the western Indian city of Pune is the world's largest vaccine manufacturer.

India makes about 1,000 ventilators and 600,000 personal protective equipment (PPE) kits per day, according to government think-tank Niti Aayog, making it the second-largest kit maker in the world after China.

The economic curve
Although Indian airspace remains closed to commercial airlines from abroad, the country's economy has largely reopened.

Consumer activity has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, government data showed, and factory workers who fled cities when India imposed its lockdown on March 24 have begun to return, enticed, in some cases, by employers offering free room and board.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has used the health crisis along with a military standoff with China over a disputed border region to rally the country around the idea of a "self-reliant India" whose home-grown industries will emerge stronger.

Modi's approval ratings remain high, despite the hasty lockdown triggered a humanitarian crisis, with thousands of migrant workers fleeing on foot towards their natal villages, and as two top government scientists on the front lines of the coronavirus fight stepped down in recent weeks.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/india-stands-fight-coronavirus-200713032153468.html
 
It was the middle of a night in May when Adwitiya Mal's father-in-law complained of difficulty in breathing.

The family doctor checked on him and advised that they wait for a few hours for him to stabilise. But in the early hours, his blood oxygen level had fallen and he had to be rushed to a hospital in Delhi. He was also running high fever.

His condition continued to deteriorate and the doctor asked the family for permission to give him convalescent plasma - one of several investigational therapies being tried in India in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The therapy, which uses the plasma of recovered Covid-19 patients, requires consent from patients and their families.

When people have Covid-19 or other viral diseases, their immune system responds by creating antibodies, which attack the virus. Over time the antibodies build up and can be found in plasma - the liquid portion of the blood.

Plasma therapy is not new. German physiologist Emil von Behring won the Nobel Prize in 1901 for using it to treat diphtheria. It was also used during the Spanish Flu in 1918.

Mr Mal's family gave consent but the hospital didn't have donors and asked them to find one. "We didn't know where to start, so we called everybody we knew and posted a plea on social media," he says.

They eventually found a donor and the patient survived - but the experience left them shattered. Mr Mal's family struggled because not many patients who had recovered from Covid-19 were willing to go back to the hospital to donate plasma.

Nearly two months later, the gap between plasma's demand and supply has grown even bigger. Many Indian states have asked hospitals to take part in clinical trials. But some states appear more eager than others.

Maharashtra and Delhi - two among the worst-affected states in India - have not only backed the therapy, but have set up plasma banks as well.

Doctors are also allowed to prescribe the therapy to moderate patients who don't show improvement with other treatments.

Dozens of studies are being conducted on the therapy around the world. But experts have warned that it's no magic bullet. Doctors around the world have not rejected the idea but say initial results of the ongoing studies are not conclusive.

Delhi-based virologist Dr Shahid Jameel says it's too soon to have any definitive conclusions whether the therapy can be considered as a proven cure.

"Such studies require prolonged clinical trials among a large and varied group of people and then you need time to assess those results," he says.

One of the earlier studies was done in China and it showed positive clinical improvement. But it also noted that all patients who recovered in the trial also received a variety of therapies in addition to plasma.

Prof Anthony Gordon, who is the head of critical care at Imperial College London and is leading a clinical trial in the UK, believes that "we don't know for sure if it works at the moment".

While most countries are taking a cautious approach to the therapy, India appears to be not only putting faith in it but politicians have actively publicised it a as a life-saving treatment. And this has put pressure on physicians in the country.

Dr Sushila Kataria, director of intensive care at Medanta Hospital, says more and more patients and their relatives are now asking for plasma therapy.

She says it's been "hyped too much" and people have started taking it as a proven treatment. "Only doctors should take such decisions. We are using the therapy in our hospital on case by case basis. We cant prescribe it to every patient," she says.

Dr A Fathahudeen, head of critical care at Ernakulam Medical College, also says the therapy's effectiveness is yet to be proven.

"It should not be given beyond the scope of clinical trials at the moment. We need more data and understanding. Under no circumstances, families should be told that this therapy is a magic wand," he says.

But despite the cautious approach, the demand for plasma from recovered Covid-19 patients in India has soared in the past few weeks. And it was this growing demand that made Mr Mal launch his website Dhoond, which aims to match donors with patients.

"My own experience made me realise that this gap needed to be fulfilled. But there were so many challenges - normal people registered initially thinking this was for blood donation," he says.

He now has a team of volunteers to ensure only right donors are matched with recipients.

But demand still outstrips supply by a long yard, he says, adding that they are able to fulfil only 100-150 out of every 1,000 requests.

There are others, like Delhi lawmaker Dilip Pandey who has been taking hundreds of calls every day from desperate families. Mr Pandey kept a meticulous record of every recovered Covid-19 patient in his area and beyond. But fear drove many of them away.

"If I had a list of 500 recovered people, half won't qualify because of medical reasons and a majority will be too scared to go back to the hospital," he says.

He also galvanised people on social media to come forward but still had to face disappointment several times. It was painful for him to deny families who approached him, thinking of plasma therapy as their last hope.

Epidemiologist Dr Lalit Kant says the families can't be blamed.

"When you read so much about the therapy in the papers, you start believing in it beyond any doubt," he says.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-53387607
 
India reports more than 28,000 new coronavirus infections

India has reported 28,498 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total number of infections to 906,752. Cases have jumped by 100,000 in four days.

The Health Ministry also reported another 553 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking total fatalities up to 23,727.

India has largely lifted its nationwide lockdown, but the spread of the virus has prompted several big cities to reimpose partial lockdowns.
 
Indian IT hub Bangalore locks down again

India's IT hub Bangalore will go back into lockdown Tuesday as the number of coronavirus cases in the country surged towards a million with about 500 people dying daily.

After imposing one of the world's strictest lockdowns in late March, India has been steadily easing rules to lessen the huge economic impact.

But infections have continued to soar, passing 900,000 on Monday with almost 24,000 deaths, according to health ministry figures that many experts say underplay the severity of the situation.
 
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Indian IT hub Bangalore locks down again

India's IT hub Bangalore will go back into lockdown Tuesday as the number of coronavirus cases in the country surged towards a million with about 500 people dying daily.

After imposing one of the world's strictest lockdowns in late March, India has been steadily easing rules to lessen the huge economic impact.

But infections have continued to soar, passing 900,000 on Monday with almost 24,000 deaths, according to health ministry figures that many experts say underplay the severity of the situation.
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even worse- new cases 28,983 - deaths 588, currently america today new cases are +28,149 with 453 deaths - i do understand that america hasnt given its full report as they are 5 hrs behind, but it does give you an idea .

Ive noticed past 2 days india death rate been higher than america at the same time report been given.

Noticed that russia for past 2weeks russia claim that new cases are always in the 6000 mark, and mexico / south africa serious critical is super low -both below 550 while deaths and confirmed / new cases / death rate are really high???
 
133m re-enter lockdown in India as Covid-19 cases top 900,000

Late on Tuesday, India’s coronavirus cases, the third-highest in the world, passed 900,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker. The current total stands at 906,752, with 23,727 known deaths.

The northern Indian state of Bihar, which has a population of 125 million, has been ordered into a new 15-day lockdown to combat coronavirus, joining states and cities around the globe that have reintroduced restrictions in recent days to counter fresh resurgences of the disease.

As the World Health Organization warned there were “no shortcuts out of the pandemic”, Sushil Kumar Modi, Bihar’s deputy chief minister, said on Tuesday: “[The] Bihar government has decided on a 15-day lockdown from 16 July to 31 July.

“All city municipalities, district headquarters, block headquarters will stay under lockdown. The guidelines are being finalised.”

The announcement came a few hours before the southern city and IT hub Bangalore, with a population of 8 million, was due to go into a week-long lockdown.

After imposing one of the world’s strictest lockdowns in late March, India had been steadily easing rules to lessen the economic impact, particularly on hundreds of millions of poor Indians who lost their jobs, bringing in new measures to ward off or respond to resurgences of the coronavirus pandemic
 
Situation going from bad to worse in India. May Allah help them in their time of need Ameen.
 
India virus crisis grows as new hubs emerge

Cases are galloping at an all-time high in India, where daily infections have been more than 28,000 for the past three days, according to statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the US.

With more than 900,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases, the country has the third-highest tally so far, behind the US and Brazil. However, India ranks lower at number eight when it comes to fatalities, with a death toll of 23,727.

Different states have witnessed peaks at varying points - for example, last month the focus was on the capital, Delhi, and Maharashtra state where infections were rapidly multiplying. While their numbers continue to be high, attention has now shifted to a handful of southern states that had, until recently, managed to keep the outbreak at bay.

An example of this is the southern city of Bangalore, where new infections have prompted officials to reimpose a week-long lockdown. And Chennai, another city in the south which returned to lockdown while the rest of India opened up, has only just eased its lockdown.
 
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India virus crisis grows as new hubs emerge

Cases are galloping at an all-time high in India, where daily infections have been more than 28,000 for the past three days, according to statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the US.

With more than 900,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases, the country has the third-highest tally so far, behind the US and Brazil. However, India ranks lower at number eight when it comes to fatalities, with a death toll of 23,727.

Different states have witnessed peaks at varying points - for example, last month the focus was on the capital, Delhi, and Maharashtra state where infections were rapidly multiplying. While their numbers continue to be high, attention has now shifted to a handful of southern states that had, until recently, managed to keep the outbreak at bay.

An example of this is the southern city of Bangalore, where new infections have prompted officials to reimpose a week-long lockdown. And Chennai, another city in the south which returned to lockdown while the rest of India opened up, has only just eased its lockdown.
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It is an expected scenario. Since last month, different states have taken arrangements to bring locals home and hence there will be new peaks for different states.
 
Daily infections on the rise in India
Krutika Pathi

BBC News, Delhi

Daily infections are growing quickly in India - nearly five days this week have seen the highest case numbers yet, ranging between 27,000 and 29,000 cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The western state of Maharashtra, the worst-hit in India, saw around 8,000 new cases on Wednesday, taking its total tally to beyond 275,000, reported local media. The state has also confirmed more than 10,000 deaths so far. Its capital, Mumbai, is the worst affected with nearly 100,000 infections.

Meanwhile, infections are also rapidly picking up in the southern state of Karnataka. More than 3,000 people tested positive in the last 24 hours - a record spike for the state. Its capital city, Bangalore - known as India's Silicon Valley - went into lockdown earlier this week to stave off rising numbers. With nearly 50,000 cases, the state now has the fourth highest caseload in the country.

India has the third-highest caseload in the world after the US and Brazil with more than 900,000 confirmed cases and 24,309 deaths.
 
India hitting record deaths while yesterday our deaths were lowest since April. I hope some sense prevails in the Indian government, their mismanagement and stupid gimmicks are making India the next hotspot after Brazil and US. Feel sad for the hundreds millions of poor and lower middle class, who simply can't afford lockdowns. Perhaps learn from our experience and implement smart lockdowns. Areas which have a higher number of cases than a certain ratio you lockdown just those spots while keeping the rest of the economy going. Pakistan's fight against corona was also floundering till we started doing smart lockdowns from mid June.
 
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India hitting record deaths while yesterday our deaths were lowest since April. I hope some sense prevails in the Indian government, their mismanagement and stupid gimmicks are making India the next hotspot after Brazil and US. Feel sad for the hundreds millions of poor and lower middle class, who simply can't afford lockdowns. Perhaps learn from our experience and implement smart lockdowns. Areas which have a higher number of cases than a certain ratio you lockdown just those spots while keeping the rest of the economy going. Pakistan's fight against corona was also floundering till we started doing smart lockdowns from mid June.
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As long as google is investing billions in India our people and PM don't care. :inti
 
India's coronavirus cases have surged another 32,695, taking the nation closer to one million and forcing a new lockdown in the popular western beach state of Goa two weeks after it was reopened to tourists.
 
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India's coronavirus cases have surged another 32,695, taking the nation closer to one million and forcing a new lockdown in the popular western beach state of Goa two weeks after it was reopened to tourists.
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India coronavirus cases near one million, driven by surge in rural areas

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The number of coronavirus cases in India neared one million on Thursday as infection numbers rose in the countryside, pushing authorities to reinstate lockdowns across several states.

India reported a record 32,696 new cases of the COVID-19 disease caused by the novel coronavirus, bringing the total to 968,876 with 24,915 deaths, according to data from the federal health ministry.

The country of 1.3 billion people is behind only the United States and Brazil in the number of confirmed infections and there is no sign yet of the curve flattening. India’s testing rate is also among the lowest in the world in relation to its population.

While major cities such as Delhi and Mumbai were among the initial hotspots of the virus in India, newer cases are emerging in rural areas where healthcare infrastructure is much weaker.

A fresh lockdown was imposed on Thursday in the largely-rural eastern state of Bihar, where cases have been rising after thousands of migrant workers returned from cities following a strict lockdown to contain the virus spread.

“While the world’s attention has been focused on the unfolding crisis in the United States and South America, a concurrent human tragedy is fast emerging in South Asia,” John Fleming, the Asia Pacific head of health at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said in a statement.

“We now need to urgently turn our attention to this region,” Fleming said, citing dire forecasts that predict thousands of more cases in India in the coming months.

Indian authorities, however, have touted their efforts to contain the virus. “Despite being such a largely populated nation, we can perhaps claim to have performed better than any other country,” Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Thursday, citing a fatality rate of 2.57% and recovery rate of 63.25%.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-driven-by-surge-in-rural-areas-idUSKCN24H1H2
 
"India posts first trade surplus in 18 years as coronavirus hits imports"

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...navirus-hits-imports/articleshow/76984251.cms

New cases will probably keep increasing for a month or two. Death rates are also increasing but at a slower rate, which probably implies that either the virus is becoming less lethal or the people getting infected are younger (same thing is happening in the US).

The two largest democracies in the world are having similar experiences. The government tries to impose restrictions, but people used to freedom only loosely follow the restrictions resulting the disease continuing to escalate.
 
125 staff and 15 priests at Tirumala test positive, row over temple being kept open

Honorary chief priest at the Tirumala Venkateswara temple A V Ramana Dikshitulu has raised concerns over the temple remaining open for darshans, with several priests testing positive for the coronavirus. Dikshitulu, who has openly criticised the actions of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Board several times in the past, asked Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy to take action to avert a “disaster.”

While Dikshitulu only mentioned about 15 out of 50 temple priests, so far, 140 people posted at the temple have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to TTD chairman Y V Subba Reddy.


More on : https://www.thenewsminute.com/artic...sitive-row-over-temple-being-kept-open-128827


I am assuming these people will be demonized the same way the TJ people were?
 
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Honorary chief priest at the Tirumala Venkateswara temple A V Ramana Dikshitulu has raised concerns over the temple remaining open for darshans, with several priests testing positive for the coronavirus. Dikshitulu, who has openly criticised the actions of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Board several times in the past, asked Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy to take action to avert a “disaster.”

While Dikshitulu only mentioned about 15 out of 50 temple priests, so far, 140 people posted at the temple have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to TTD chairman Y V Subba Reddy.


More on : https://www.thenewsminute.com/artic...sitive-row-over-temple-being-kept-open-128827


I am assuming these people will be demonized the same way the TJ people were?
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Nah our C grade and cheap media won't get any TRP if they report and discuss this on prime time. :inti
 
Delhi breathes again as Covid-19 cases dip
Aparna Alluri

BBC News, Delhi

Two weeks ago, India's capital, Delhi, was scrambling to fight a pandemic that appeared to be spiralling out of control.

June had been a terrible month for the city, with record surges almost every day. Overrun labs and public hospitals added to the chaos and anxiety - as did conflicting information from the state and central governments.

By the end of the month, Delhi responded with a flurry of measures, from door-to-door health check-ups to increased testing, with the use of antigen tests, which are rapid but less reliable than the more widely used RT-PCR tests.

These efforts seem to be paying off, says K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India and member of the national Covid-19 taskforce.

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India now has more than one million coronavirus cases – the third highest infection rate in the world behind the United States and Brazil.

The country's health officials provided an update on the latest COVID-19 data on Friday, as infections spread into towns and the countryside.

It comes after India lifted its lockdown of 1.3bn residents last month.

The country has reported 25,602 virus deaths, according to its health ministry, which is the eighth highest death toll in the world.

Only the US and Brazil have more cases, with America reporting more than 3.5 million and Brazil recently surpassing two million.

On Thursday, US coronavirus deaths rose by 969 to more than 138,284 in total - the highest single-day increase since 10 June.

California, where lockdown restrictions have been reintroduced, is among the hotspots, alongside Arizona, Florida and Texas.

If Florida was a country, it would have had the fourth highest single-day spike in cases in the world - behind the US as a whole, India and Brazil - with a record 15,000 reported on Sunday.

President Donald Trump has experienced a dip in recent national opinion polls over his handling of the US outbreak, which has also resulted in 40 million people losing their jobs.

Dr Anthony Fauci, the US government's infectious disease expert, has warned that there will soon be 100,000 new cases every day if Americans do not observe social distancing measures and refuse to wear masks.

In Brazil, the number of confirmed cases stood at 2,012,151 on Friday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University, which has been tracking the outbreak.

Coronavirus took longer to reach Latin America, but it has become an epicentre of the worldwide pandemic, with Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro describing restrictions as "dictatorial".

More than 76,000 people have died of COVID-19 in Brazil, with the UK just behind it in global rankings with more than 45,000 deaths.

https://news.sky.com/story/india-co...ne-million-to-third-highest-in-world-12030255
 
"Only God Can Save Us": Row Over Karnataka Health Minister's Virus Remark

Bengaluru: As India's coronavirus tally continues to surge, the health minister in Karnataka - which has logged over 47,000 patients so far - on Wednesday said that "only god can help save us" from the highly contagious disease. B Sriramulu's remarks have landed him in controversy amid attacks from the opposition parties.

Karnataka has replaced Gujarat as the fourth-worst affected state in the country after Maharashtra (2.75 lakh cases), Tamil Nadu (1.51 lakh cases) and Delhi (1.16 lakh cases).

"Worldwide the number of coronavirus cases is increasing. All of us should be alert. Whether you are a member of the ruling party or in the opposition, rich or poor... the virus doesn't discriminate," the 48-year-old BJP leader told reporters.

"The cases (in the state), I am sure 100 per cent will only go up in the next two months. One can keep claiming that it's because of the government's negligence or irresponsibility of the ministers or that cases are up because of a lack of coordination among the ministers. All of these allegations are far from the truth. Only God can save us from coronavirus," he added.

Hitting out at the ** Yediyurappa government over the health minister's remarks, Congress's DK Shivakumar tweeted: "Karnataka's Health Minister saying "Only God can save Karnataka" reflects poorly on @BSYBJP govt's ability to handle the CoVID crisis. Why do we need such a govt if they cannot tackle the pandemic? This govt's incompetency has left citizens to god's mercy. (sic)."

However, Mr Sriramulu later gave a clarification. "I had said that besides people's cooperation, God should also protect us but some reporters interpreted that 'Sriramulu has become helpless with respect to coronavirus spread'," he said in a late-night video message on Wednesday, news agency PTI reported.

"What I meant was that till the time a vaccine comes, it is only God who can save us. The comment should not be wrongly interpreted," he added.

In the last 24 hours, Karnataka was among the five states in the country that reported the highest number of new infections, the government said this morning.

https://www.ndtv.com/karnataka-news...only-god-can-save-us-from-coronavirus-2263742
 
With such at attitude no wonder, we're 3rd in the list. Had we tested more in the first 3 months, we'd have surely been ahead of US & Brazil.

It's easier to buy lawmakers and install your illegitimate government but far tougher to actually govern.
 
MP2011 said:
With such at attitude no wonder, we're 3rd in the list. Had we tested more in the first 3 months, we'd have surely been ahead of US & Brazil.

It's easier to buy lawmakers and install your illegitimate government but far tougher to actually govern.
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.... And it is even easier to criticize than being in the field and face the heat.
 
lol, someone has even managed to justify this! No surprising in the least though.

Due to such devotees, guys like Sriramalu become health ministers (no less!) of such a big state and give such moronic statements after trying all sorts of illiterate gimmicks (banging thalis, light lamps, dictatorial lockdowns, list is endless) to contain the virus.

Pity, had these creatures woken up from the beginning, things won't have come to such a pass!
 
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This 'clarification' takes the cake though,

I had said that besides people's cooperation, God should also protect us

I mean, if everything needs to be done by people and the god, what is this illiterate Sanghi for? To loot exchequer?
 
Varun/pillionrider,

Anything to say on your 'health' minister?
 
I won’t blame the minister for that remark. Because Karnataka is doing their best in Bengaluru but still the situation is out of their control. It’s not like they are doing nothing and leaving everything in the hands of God. They are trying their best to contain it.

Gujarat and Telangana is concealing a lot of cases. Similarly so many deaths are unaccounted in Chennai too. The numbers we are seeing are only just the tip of iceberg.
 
MP2011 said:
Varun/pillionrider,

Anything to say on your 'health' minister?
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When this Sriramulu guy says only God can save us he means Modi or Reddy. He's a bhakta of the two.

By Reddy I mean mining scammer and ex-BJP leader Janardhan Reddy. Reddy during the heights of demonetization suffering threw a 500 crore wedding.

This guy's daughter's wedding this year was alleged to also be in the same ballpark though investigations haven't really gotten anywhere considering they're in power.

Basically he is Reddy's guy in the party and government.

I'm surprised these BJP leaders have thrown their hands up in the air. Seem to have run out of banging plates kind of ideas. Now it's time to do some poojas maybe.
 
pillionrider said:
By Reddy I mean mining scammer and ex-BJP leader Janardhan Reddy. Reddy during the heights of demonetization suffering threw a 500 crore wedding.

This guy's daughter's wedding this year was alleged to also be in the same ballpark though investigations haven't really gotten anywhere considering they're in power.

Basically he is Reddy's guy in the party and government.
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So this isn't corruption? In bhakts' books, its isn't.

I remember about Reddy's daughter's wedding during demonetisation. Of course, the bigot chose to remain tight lipped about this blatant case of corruption while begging gullible bhakts to give him 50 days to root our corruption.... Vadra this, Vadra that....lol....

That was helluva funny!
 
Over 1 million: India joins U.S., Brazil in grim coronavirus club

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India on Friday became the third country in the world to record more than one million cases of the new coronavirus, behind only the United States and Brazil, as infections spread further into the countryside and smaller towns.

Given India’s population of around 1.3 billion, experts say, one million is relatively low - but the number will rise significantly in the coming months as testing increases, further straining a healthcare system already pushed to the brink.

The pandemic has surged in the country in recent weeks as it spread beyond the biggest cities, pushing India past Russia as the third-most-infected country last week.

Authorities imposed fresh lockdowns and designated new containment zones in several states this week, including the largely rural Bihar state in the east and the southern tech hub Bengaluru, where cases have spiked.

But officials have the struggled to enforce the lockdowns and keep people indoors.

India recorded 34,956 new infections on Friday, taking the total to 1,003,832, with 25,602 deaths from COVID-19, federal health ministry data showed. That compares to 3.6 million cases in the United States and 2 million in Brazil - countries with less than a third of India’s population.

Epidemiologists say India is still likely months from hitting its peak.

“In the coming months, we are bound to see more and more cases, and that is the natural progression of any pandemic,” said Giridhar Babu, epidemiologist at the nonprofit Public Health Foundation of India.

“As we move forward, the goal has to be lower mortality,” he said. “A critical challenge states will face is how to rationally allocate hospital beds.”

The last four months of the pandemic sweeping India have exposed severe gaps in the country’s healthcare system, which is one of the most poorly funded and has for years lacked enough doctors or hospital beds.

The Indian government has defended a strict lockdown it imposed in March to contain the virus spread, saying it helped keep death rates low and allowed time to beef up the healthcare infrastructure. But public health experts say shortages remain and could hit hard in the coming months.

“As a public health measure, I don’t think the lockdown had much impact. It just delayed the virus spread,” said Dr. Kapil Yadav, assistant professor of community medicine at New Delhi’s premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

The million cases so far recorded likely left out many asymptomatic ones, he said. “It’s a gross underestimate.”

Rahul Gandhi, leader of the opposition Congress party, urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take concrete steps to contain the pandemic, tweeting that the number of infections will double to two million by August 10 at this pace.

Millions of migrant workers, left stranded in the cities by the lockdown in March, took long journeys home on foot, some dying on the way while others left without work or wages.

Several states including Bihar, to which many of the migrants returned, have witnessed a surge in cases in recent weeks as the lockdown has been eased to salvage a sagging economy.

Babu predicts India will not see a sharp peak and decline.

“The surges are shifting from one place to another, so we cannot say there will be one peak for the whole country. In India, it’s going to be a sustained plateau for some time and then it will go down.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...brazil-in-grim-coronavirus-club-idUSKCN24I0EI
 
looks like india peak will be around last few days of july to 3 weeks of august - they did predict this around a month ago
 
India's doctors and health workers are at great risk.

Almost 100 doctors have died due to COVID-19, and there is no data available for the scores of nurses and health workers who may have also succumbed to the disease.

A red alert has been issued by the India Medical Association - an organisation of physicians and medical students across the country - warning hospitals and doctors to adopt best scientific practices to ensure the safety of themselves, their families and colleagues.

"If COVID-19 mortality has to be lessened, it has to start with doctors and hospitals," it said.

Dr Abhishek Bhayana is the youngest doctor to have died so far, at the age of 26.

He was working at one of the country's top hospitals in Delhi, and on 28 June he complained of mild coronavirus symptoms while at home in the city of Rohtak.

An early COVID-19 test was negative, but all of the symptoms persisted and his condition worsened on 1 July.

He was taken to hospital, where he died the following afternoon.

Breaking down, his father Satish Bhayana told Sky News: "We just had no time, it all happened so fast. In less than a week he was gone."

His older brother Aman said: "It is like a nightmare that we are in, I'm still not able to admit that he's no more.

"He was just 26. We can't bear this loss. Without any medical history or illness, the frontline COVID warriors and doctors like him die."

Doctors and health workers are among the most vulnerable to COVID-19 in India, with reports of a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), long shifts and of hospitals being ill-prepared for this health emergency.

Dr Bhayana's mother Rekha said: "Parents will be scared to let their children become doctors and send them on the frontline from now on.

"Their lives are far more precious to us parents than them becoming doctors."

At one COVID-dedicated ambulance control room, Sanjay Yadav and his colleague Jaivendra Singh are on multiple phones constantly to answer more than 150 calls a day - a job they have been doing for four months.

They coordinate and track 38 ambulances in a district that caters to 4.5 million inhabitants of Ghaziabad, a town near the country's capital Delhi.

In between his calls, Mr Yadav says: "In the beginning, I was afraid. But not anymore - I believe I am doing good work and so I will not get the disease."

One call during our visit is to take a five-year-old girl to hospital - she has tested positive for COVID-19 and the stigma attached to the disease forces her and her mother to wait on the main road, away from their neighbourhood.

They are hurried into the ambulance and taken to a COVID hospital, and will be quarantined there for two weeks.

The girl is among more than one million cases now confirmed in India and there are growing concerns about the numbers coming from rural areas.

After months of severe lockdown for its population of 1.3 billion people, it is feared that some have been inadvertently carrying the virus back from urban areas and into villages.

For decades, successive governments have spent about 1.2% of India's GDP on public health care, and so the infrastructure is inadequate and in many places almost non-existent.

This sort of pandemic could cause a near collapse of an already burdened system.

At a testing camp in Ghaziabad, one man - 37-year-old Deepak - told Sky News he was "scared" to learn he had contracted the disease after overcoming a fever.

"Yes of course I am scared," he said, adding: "I have a family and children, I never thought I will test positive."

Out of 10 people tested during the time we were at this camp, three were confirmed positive - again adding to the increasing case count that makes India the third worst-affected country behind the US and Brazil.

With more than 35,000 cases reported in the last 24 hours, there are still no signs of it peaking

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...g-to-indias-growing-number-of-deaths-12030754
 
India sees new surge in cases

Their cases are part of a surge in infections across India, which has today recorded another 34,884 infections in the past 24 hours. In that one-day period alone, 671 deaths have been reported that are linked to coronavirus. This graphic shows how India is faring in comparison with other countries seeing a surge in infections

A number of states have placed high-risk areas under lockdown - including Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal
 
finalfantasy7 said:
looks like india peak will be around last few days of july to 3 weeks of august - they did predict this around a month ago
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I really hope that’s true. But it probably wont be.

Thing is, in India, different states are at different stages. Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka will hopefully reach their peak in the next few weeks. However, the rest of the country is yet to hit the peak. I don’t think as a nation we will hit peak until OCtober.

However, I hope I am wrong and you are correct.
 
India reports record nearly 39,000 cases in one-day

India recorded its biggest surge in COVID-19 cases to date with 38,902 new cases and 543 deaths in the last 24 hours/

The country’s total infections tally is now 1,077,618 to date, as the total death toll has climbed to 26,816, according to health ministry data.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BJP has institutionalised lies.<br><br>1. Covid19 by restricting testing and misreporting deaths.<br>2. GDP by using a new calculation method.<br>3. Chinese aggression by frightening the media.<br><br>The illusion will break soon and India will pay the price.<a href="https://t.co/YR9b1kD1wB">https://t.co/YR9b1kD1wB</a></p>— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) <a href="https://twitter.com/RahulGandhi/status/1284714762945740800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Abdullah719 said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BJP has institutionalised lies.<br><br>1. Covid19 by restricting testing and misreporting deaths.<br>2. GDP by using a new calculation method.<br>3. Chinese aggression by frightening the media.<br><br>The illusion will break soon and India will pay the price.<a href="https://t.co/YR9b1kD1wB">https://t.co/YR9b1kD1wB</a></p>— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) <a href="https://twitter.com/RahulGandhi/status/1284714762945740800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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BJP = India for many Indians (it was Congress = India for many years). Any attack on BJP is an attack on India. And we all know how insecure Indians are, we hate criticism of any sort (it is taken as a personal insult) and are pro at cheap trolling. So whatever Gandhi is “exposing” at this time won’t go down well with anyone. He is going to get more hate.
 
BreadPakoda said:
BJP = India for many Indians (it was Congress = India for many years). Any attack on BJP is an attack on India. And we all know how insecure Indians are, we hate criticism of any sort (it is taken as a personal insult) and are pro at cheap trolling. So whatever Gandhi is “exposing” at this time won’t go down well with anyone. He is going to get more hate.
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Let me ask, what should gov of India do in this case?

Lets talk about numbers. Since you agree with restricting number of tests, let say how many tests should have been done each day to be call it justified?
 
Oof 39,000 cases in a day. That's very worrying. Where is Modi? I see how BJP supporters have stopped coming to this thread. They were swarming here during early days of pandemic celebrating gimmicks like banging bartan or turning off lights.

I do hope the situation improves despite government's lack of effort. The poor and hungry really can't afford this.


Also what happened to the 2000 lakh crore package, did it start reaching the people who need it?


Some posters will attack me based on my nationality but these are valid questions every Indian should be asking. Thankfully they can't ask me to 'go to Pakistan' :inti



Pakistan is poorer and less developed health infrastructure, population density the same. Our active cases have dropped to about 50k and daily new cases are down to 1900 from a high of 7000. Deaths are down to 40 from a high of 160. Something IK government might be doing that Modi government isn't.
 
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So whatever Gandhi is “exposing” at this time won’t go down well with anyone. He is going to get more hate.
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As if he cares. He has a very thick skin. Lesser guy would have caved in meekly years ago.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Watch | "Community spread has begun": Dr V K Monga, Chairman, IMA on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CoronavirusPandemic?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CoronavirusPandemic</a>. <a href="https://t.co/IdgeSvNMPJ">pic.twitter.com/IdgeSvNMPJ</a></p>— NDTV (@ndtv) <a href="https://twitter.com/ndtv/status/1284820156531630083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
India recorded more than 40,000 infections on Sunday, the highest number of daily cases yet. Local media reported that the past week was the "deadliest" with more than 230,000 cases confirmed.

The country crossed the one million infections last week, making it the third country - after the US and Brazil - to do so.

With cases doubling every 20 days, India is now a global hotspot. Yet it's not all bad news - the mortality rate has reportedly dipped below 2.5% for the first time, according to Indian media quoting government data.

This puts it below the global average, and gives India "one of the lowest fatality rates in the world," the health ministry said.

Meanwhile, active cases are dropping in the national capital, Delhi, which a few weeks ago had dominated headlines for rising cases.

As of Monday, the city has around 16,000 active cases - approximately 13% of the more than 100,000 infections confirmed so far, reported The Indian Express newspaper.
 
MenInG said:
India recorded more than 40,000 infections on Sunday, the highest number of daily cases yet. Local media reported that the past week was the "deadliest" with more than 230,000 cases confirmed.

The country crossed the one million infections last week, making it the third country - after the US and Brazil - to do so.

With cases doubling every 20 days, India is now a global hotspot. Yet it's not all bad news - the mortality rate has reportedly dipped below 2.5% for the first time, according to Indian media quoting government data.

This puts it below the global average, and gives India "one of the lowest fatality rates in the world," the health ministry said.

Meanwhile, active cases are dropping in the national capital, Delhi, which a few weeks ago had dominated headlines for rising cases.

As of Monday, the city has around 16,000 active cases - approximately 13% of the more than 100,000 infections confirmed so far, reported The Indian Express newspaper.
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thats nearly the total amount of cases Pakistan have recorded since its begun - would like to know how many people have died in india in last week
 
Indian researchers partnering with those at Oxford University on the vaccine say local trials will begin soon after a license has been obtained, reported local media.

The vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and triggers an immune response. It is still at development stage though and will go through further rounds of testing.

The chief of Serum Institute of India, the firm partnering with the UK researchers, said the trials "have shown promising results".

"We will be applying for the licensure trials to the Indian regulator in a week's time. As soon as they grant us permission, we will begin with the trials for the vaccine in India. In addition, we will soon start manufacturing the vaccine in large volumes," Adar Poonawalla told Indian media outlets.

With more than a million confirmed infections, India has the third-highest caseload in the world after the US and Brazil.
 
Need to improve the recovery rate. 62 is still now, seeing sporadic lockdowns.
 
More than one in five people in New Delhi have been infected with the coronavirus, according to scientists, indicating that most cases in the Indian capital region have gone undetected.
 
Over 22 percent of people in Delhi have had virus, study indicates

More than one in five people in Delhi have been infected with the coronavirus, according to a study, indicating that most cases in the Indian capital region have gone undetected.

The National Center for Disease Control tested 21,387 people selected randomly across Delhi, the state that includes New Delhi, and found that 23.48 percent had antibodies to the virus.

Adjusting for false positives and negatives, it estimated that 22.86 percent of the population had been infected by the virus, Dr. Sujeet Kumar Singh, who heads the institute, said in a news conference.
 
India cancels historic Hindu pilgrimage as coronavirus cases mount

India has cancelled a historic Hindu pilgrimage to a holy cave high in the snow-capped mountains of contested Kashmir for the first time, as cases of the novel coronavirus continued to rise.

There were 37,724 new cases reported in the past 24 hours, according to federal health data released on Wednesday. India has reported almost 1.2 million cases overall, behind only the United States and Brazil.

Organisers of the Amarnath Yatra, where saffron-clad Hindu ascetics walk 46 km (28 miles) to the cave across glaciers and waterlogged trails, said a "very sharp" spike in coronavirus cases had forced the cancellation. [Source - Aljazeera]
 
a really bad day for india today - +45,508 new cases - deaths +1,125. -more deaths reported than any other country so far.

however they had 31,874 recoveries today
 
Over a 1000 dead in a day should have severe alarm bells ringing. I don't know what measures the Indian government is taking but situation is going from bad to worse. Has the PM even come on the media to speak on the matter? I pray for the situation to get better. Sadly people in our countries are so poor that governments can't even do extended periods of strict lockdown. The vaccine can't come soon enough.
 
Syed1 said:
Over a 1000 dead in a day should have severe alarm bells ringing. I don't know what measures the Indian government is taking but situation is going from bad to worse. Has the PM even come on the media to speak on the matter? I pray for the situation to get better. Sadly people in our countries are so poor that governments can't even do extended periods of strict lockdown. The vaccine can't come soon enough.
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It’s over 600 a day which is a lot. I’m sure undercounting too

But from the outisde it seems their government has given up on them and even on media there’s no hoopla or anything. All their channels with most viewership don’t seem to be having any features in it and neither are the ministers commenting on it too much is the sense I get. Maybe modi like trump thinks “One day it will just disappear”
 
India infections cross 1.2 million

Infections in India have passed 1.2 million, according to data from the health ministry. The country has confirmed nearly 30,000 deaths so far.

India went into lockdown in March, when cases were hovering in the hundreds. It started to ease out of it in June, when infections had started to pick up pace - as cities jumped back into action alongside a rise in testing, cases began to go up rapidly.

Barricades and closed shops in Sringar in Jammu and Kashmir, which is back under lockdown
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This prompted several states and cities to reimpose curbs and lockdowns. On Wednesday, Jammu and Kashmir became the latest to do so, announcing a six-day lockdown.

And hotspots in southern India, like IT hub city Bangalore, which had managed to stave off rising numbers are now very much in the grip of the pandemic. The state the city is in, Karnataka, has now registered more than 75,000 infections.

But it's not all bad news. India's active cases remain low in comparison to the total tally at around 425,000. And its recovery rate continues to be high at over 63%
 
Syed1 said:
Over a 1000 dead in a day should have severe alarm bells ringing. I don't know what measures the Indian government is taking but situation is going from bad to worse. Has the PM even come on the media to speak on the matter?
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Bigot has his priorities all sorted. He'll be inaugurating the construction of Ram temple by physically going to Ayodhya despite lecturing others about 'do gaj ki doori'. Besides there is that unfinished job of toppling Rajasthan's Congress government.
 
Syed1 said:
Over a 1000 dead in a day should have severe alarm bells ringing. I don't know what measures the Indian government is taking but situation is going from bad to worse. Has the PM even come on the media to speak on the matter? I pray for the situation to get better. Sadly people in our countries are so poor that governments can't even do extended periods of strict lockdown. The vaccine can't come soon enough.
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I believe this is their peak. We had almost a 1000 a day in the Uk a while back but never hit the 1000 a day number. Numbers are coming down now.

I wouldn't like to comment much on our neighbours and expect our indian posters to inform us.
 
Coronavirus: PM Modiji had 50+ meetings in 1 month on reforms

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has, in the past month or so, sat through more than 50 presentations and reviews aimed at accelerating reforms through a number of sectoral decisions intended to address bottlenecks and the impact of Covid rather than opting for bigbang decisions.

In the absence of regular interactions and public programmes, the PM has had the time to pack in several virtual discussions in a day and top officials have logged in 1,000 man-hours as meetings lasted two hours on an average with about 10 people attending, said official sources. The brainstorming sessions on a wide range of issues were intended to boost growth.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.time...month-on-reforms/amp_articleshow/77118062.cms
 
the Great Khan said:
I believe this is their peak. We had almost a 1000 a day in the Uk a while back but never hit the 1000 a day number. Numbers are coming down now.

I wouldn't like to comment much on our neighbours and expect our indian posters to inform us.
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Our country is like the European union with many states peaking at different times. Some of them are very honest like AP, Maharashtra and there are some other non transparent states like Gujarat, Telangana, UP, Bihar where we don’t know what exactly is going on. I hope the peak in most states will be by end of August and the dip in September.

We have still not reached 1000 deaths/day mark. YesterdayÂ’s huge count is from the backlog of Chennai corporations, not occured in a single day. But soon we will reach that numbers regularly. Only saving grace is that our recovery rate is much better. May be because of our extensive dexamethasone use or the virus has become less effective. DonÂ’t know tbh.
 
Sidilicious said:
I really hope that’s true. But it probably wont be.

Thing is, in India, different states are at different stages. Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka will hopefully reach their peak in the next few weeks. However, the rest of the country is yet to hit the peak. I don’t think as a nation we will hit peak until OCtober.

However, I hope I am wrong and you are correct.
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after reading your post -i stand corrected - i have read some articles and they have suggested what you have said.

A big jump in new cases in new cases +47,399 - deaths haven't been too high +755
 
A 14-year-old girl in a Covid-19 quarantine centre in India's capital Delhi was allegedly sexually assaulted by another patient within the facility.

The accused, 19, and another man who allegedly filmed the incident have been arrested, police said.

All three had tested positive with mild symptoms and were in quarantine in India's largest Covid-19 centre - a facility with 10,000 beds.

News of the alleged assault, which took place on 15 July, has just come out.

India has confirmed more than 1.2 million cases so far, making it the country with the third highest number of infections.
 
kaayal said:
Our country is like the European union with many states peaking at different times. Some of them are very honest like AP, Maharashtra and there are some other non transparent states like Gujarat, Telangana, UP, Bihar where we don’t know what exactly is going on. I hope the peak in most states will be by end of August and the dip in September.

We have still not reached 1000 deaths/day mark. YesterdayÂ’s huge count is from the backlog of Chennai corporations, not occured in a single day. But soon we will reach that numbers regularly. Only saving grace is that our recovery rate is much better. May be because of our extensive dexamethasone use or the virus has become less effective. DonÂ’t know tbh.
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yes I assumed so. What are the major differences in the way states have handled things? Kerala seemed to do a good job early on. Also do you feel politics and attitudes have played a part in the response?
 
the Great Khan said:
What are the major differences in the way states have handled things? Kerala seemed to do a good job early on. Also do you feel politics and attitudes have played a part in the response?
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She'll be better placed to answer about Kerala. But they have a better healthcare set up. More educated people. Everyone reads the paper at the very least :)). They also had recent experience quashing the Nipah virus.

In Karnataka, it was always going to be a matter of time before it exploded given the number of overseas travelers and our tech industry. But sadly, this has turned into an opportunistic exercise with corruption through the roof. Even lower level politicians are minting in the crores right now. This is something I often mentioned to the likes of [MENTION=76058]cricketjoshila[/MENTION] about the BJP forming government and their past record in corruption, but none of them felt anyone could be like the Congress or JDS.

Private hospitals are having a ball. As are government hospitals which are mostly unavailable to anyone who doesn't have contacts. I personally know of someone who was given a 7.5 lakh bill and he didn't even need a ventilator.
 
pillionrider said:
She'll be better placed to answer about Kerala. But they have a better healthcare set up. More educated people. Everyone reads the paper at the very least :)). They also had recent experience quashing the Nipah virus.

In Karnataka, it was always going to be a matter of time before it exploded given the number of overseas travelers and our tech industry. But sadly, this has turned into an opportunistic exercise with corruption through the roof. Even lower level politicians are minting in the crores right now. This is something I often mentioned to the likes of [MENTION=76058]cricketjoshila[/MENTION] about the BJP forming government and their past record in corruption, but none of them felt anyone could be like the Congress or JDS.

Private hospitals are having a ball. As are government hospitals which are mostly unavailable to anyone who doesn't have contacts. I personally know of someone who was given a 7.5 lakh bill and he didn't even need a ventilator.
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Im fascinated to hear about the medical system in India. I assumed perhaps righlty or wrongly that it was a socialist form of healthcare as in universal coverage for most of the poor where possible? Why do you need contacts for govt hospitals? what are people supposed to do then?

Does this not mean that the fight with the virus will be prolonged and ever more dangerous?
 
the Great Khan said:
I assumed perhaps righlty or wrongly that it was a socialist form of healthcare as in universal coverage for most of the poor where possible?
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In principle yes. In practice, affordable, really quality, healthcare is available mostly in Christian-run hospitals like St John's and Baptist. At least here in Bengaluru.

Other private-run hospitals tend to drain your funds. They've corporatized everything and doctors are given targets every month. This many tests, referrals etc.

In normal circumstances, the poor can also choose government hospitals and there have been attempts to clean them up with surprise checks. But these are extraordinary times and so in relation to your question:

the Great Khan said:
Why do you need contacts for govt hospitals? what are people supposed to do then?
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Die

the Great Khan said:
Does this not mean that the fight with the virus will be prolonged and ever more dangerous?
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Our state health minister who's renowned for his corrupt links has said we should leave it up to God :)
 
pillionrider said:
In principle yes. In practice, affordable, really quality, healthcare is available mostly in Christian-run hospitals like St John's and Baptist. At least here in Bengaluru.

Other private-run hospitals tend to drain your funds. They've corporatized everything and doctors are given targets every month. This many tests, referrals etc.

In normal circumstances, the poor can also choose government hospitals and there have been attempts to clean them up with surprise checks. But these are extraordinary times and so in relation to your question:



Die


Our state health minister who's renowned for his corrupt links has said we should leave it up to God :)
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that's quite sad to hear. I just dont get why our subcontinental politicians havent realised that you can win elections by providing good services too. It just boggles my mind. This is another reason i want to see a detente with India. Cross border medical health care and universal medical care would revolutionise both countries. I guess you need people of real vision to move things like this forward..
 
the Great Khan said:
Im fascinated to hear about the medical system in India. I assumed perhaps righlty or wrongly that it was a socialist form of healthcare as in universal coverage for most of the poor where possible? Why do you need contacts for govt hospitals? what are people supposed to do then?

Does this not mean that the fight with the virus will be prolonged and ever more dangerous?
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You can't get a specific answer to these questions because it varies drastically a lot from state to state. Hence, you'll need to ask with reference to the state.
 
the Great Khan said:
yes I assumed so. What are the major differences in the way states have handled things? Kerala seemed to do a good job early on. Also do you feel politics and attitudes have played a part in the response?
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It’s better I don’t go on about other other states as there are other people here from those states who are more well informed about their matters than me. I can talk about mine which is Kerala.

Kerala’s Public health system is handling all the Covid19 patients by its own so that the private hospitals doesn’t mint money out of poor people’s misery. Our fight against this virus has always been about “flattening the curve and buying TIME” so that our health care facilities doesn’t collapse like what happened in Italy, Mumbai etc. These big numbers were expected as our population density( throughout the state) is very high and also people’s movement can’t be controlled much in this unlock phase. A controlled release of infection is good tbh so that there will be small pockets of herd immunity but it should never reach to a level of community spread in a bigger manner like in Mumbai. Forming containment zones and Cluster management policies has been found to be very effective in some parts of Kerala. Still I would say we have a long way to go. But public awareness campaigns like “Break the Chain” has helped us a lot in educating people compared to other states. Even now hospitals are not crowded and only 2% of our ventilator capacity has been used till now. We are prepared but we need to enforce more behavioural changes in the Public until a vaccine is found. Till then we need to protect our vulnerables as much as we can.
 
the Great Khan said:
Im fascinated to hear about the medical system in India. I assumed perhaps righlty or wrongly that it was a socialist form of healthcare as in universal coverage for most of the poor where possible? Why do you need contacts for govt hospitals? what are people supposed to do then?

Does this not mean that the fight with the virus will be prolonged and ever more dangerous?
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Varies with state. In Kerala common people mostly depend on Govt hospitals compared to the Private ones.
 
India sees record 49,000 new cases, drug shortages in places

India reported over 49,000 fresh cases of the coronavirus with 740 new deaths, marking the biggest daily surge in cases even as officials in some states complained of shortages of vital drugs for those hospitalised.

As the number of cases neared 1.3 million in India, local authorities scrambled to procure generic versions of remdesivir, the drug that has shown promise in clinical trials in treating severely-ill patients.

"Demand is huge as cases are rising rapidly in the state," said a senior drug regulatory official in the western state of Maharashtra. "Supplies of the drug are limited, but companies have assured us they will provide more in a week."
 
kaayal said:
I won’t blame the minister for that remark. Because Karnataka is doing their best in Bengaluru but still the situation is out of their control. It’s not like they are doing nothing and leaving everything in the hands of God. They are trying their best to contain it.

Gujarat and Telangana is concealing a lot of cases. Similarly so many deaths are unaccounted in Chennai too. The numbers we are seeing are only just the tip of iceberg.
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Yeah this is true. We were doing better than every other metro in india but now its spiralling out of control. Still, a poor statement to make by this minister.
 
India, the third worst-hit country in the world after the United States and Brazil, now has 13,36,861 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 31,358 people have succumbed till date, Union health ministry data showed on Saturday.

The country’s tally of the coronavirus disease mounted to more than 1.3 million after 48,916 Covid-19 cases and 757 fatalities due to the viral disease were reported in the last 24 hours.

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The number of Covid-19 cases saw a slight dip after India reported record new infections for two days in a row—45,720 on Thursday and 49,310 on Friday.

There are 456,071 active cases of the respiratory disease and 849,431 patients have been cured so far, according to the health ministry’s Covid-19 dashboard.

With 32,223 people discharged from hospitals between Friday and Saturday morning, India saw another highest single-day recovery for the fourth consecutive day. The recovery rate has now reached a new high of 63.53%.

The cumulative Covid-19 recoveries had crossed the 8 lakh-mark on Friday.

The Union health ministry has said it is formulating guidelines to help manage long-term complications that some people have reported after recovering from severe Covid-19 illness.

“The ministry is working on guidelines for discharged patients who may develop other complications post-recovery at home. It has been reported that a section of recovered patients may experience respiratory or heart-related issues, renal or liver complications, or even ophthalmological (eye-related) side-effects,” said Rajesh Bhushan, an officer on special duty, the health ministry.

“Our experts are working on putting a document together to guide people on what kind of long-term care would they require, and what are the issues that they may face,” Bhushan said on Friday.

Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu have been responsible for nearly two out of every three new infections reported till early July but the current spurt in Covid-19 cases have been reported from states such as Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.

Maharashtra reported 357,117 cases, Tamil Nadu 199749 and Delhi 128,389 so far, according to the Union health ministry’s dashboard.

The government has asked nine states adding to the present spurt of the active caseload in the country to urgently ramp up testing, strictly implement containment plan, augment health infrastructure and ensure effective clinical management.

Chief secretaries and health secretaries of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and Assam were asked to review their response strategy and follow the central norms during a virtual review meeting chaired by the cabinet secretary.

“The cabinet secretary stressed the need for prompt and proper delineation of containment zones as per the guidelines of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; intensive contact tracing and house-to-house active case search within the Containment Zones so as to effectively break the chain of transmission. Buffer Zones to be identified outside the Containment Zones and continued surveillance of SARI/ILI cases needs to be undertaken,” the government said in a statement.

The attention of the states was drawn to the fact that early detection and timely clinical management is the key to contain the spread of Covid-19, it added.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/indi...l-at-31-358/story-PfxGM1Bg0zMp10P6acHFXM.html
 
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