Skip to main content

Five million coronavirus infections in India

 The number of confirmed coronaviruses in India has exceeded five million, officials say, second only to the US in the world.




  The virus seems to be spreading faster in India than in any other country, with more than 90,000 being transmitted daily for five days by Tuesday.


  More than 1,000,000 people have died amid reports of intensive care beds and shortages of oxygen.


  But the mortality rate is lower than in countries with high cases.


  The infection has risen since the government continued to lift sanctions across the country in March to boost the economy, which lost millions of jobs to the virus.


  The gym is the latest to reopen, while schools, colleges and cinema halls remain closed.  But most workplaces and markets have returned to normal, and many cities are allowing restaurants and bars to continue serving alcohol, which is likely to increase congestion.


  'I'm fine but I'm afraid Covid will still kill me'


  Rumors hamper testing in India


  Global epidemic tracking


  Are the fewer tests of the South Asian outbreak hidden?


  How did India get here?


  In the early stages of Covid-1 of, India did quite well, imposing strict lockdowns, but then the virus hit megacities like Mumbai and the capital, Delhi, before moving to smaller cities and rural areas.


  Despite the increase, the government has relaxed restrictions to recover from the effects of the initial lockdown between March and June - which has hit the economy hard.

As India opens up and people return to work, the number of Covid-19 cases has skyrocketed.  Some 600,000 cases were added last week.

  After adding 90,123 cases in the last 24 hours, India's case load is at 5,020,359.

  Despite the virus spreading to every corner of the country, including remote tribes in India's Andaman Islands, the burden of the case is coming from most of the five states.

  Our coverage of epidemics in India

  Rumors of coronavirus hamper testing in Punjab

  With the increasing number of Covid-19 cases, India is facing oxygen shortage

  Retrieved from Covid-19: 'I can't get images out of my head'

  How many Covid-19 deaths are missing in India?

  Why won't India accept how Kovid-19 is spreading?

  Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in India, also account for more than 60% of active cases.

  But the increase in the number of cases is also partly a reflection of the increased testing - India conducts more than one million tests a day.

  What about reports of oxygen shortages?

  As the number of cases has increased, so has the demand for oxygen.

  

Oxygen producers say demand for industrial oxygen has also increased as more factories reopen.

  "This is a question of livelihood that India is now grappling with," BBC India correspondent Sautik Vishwas said in a report.  Our correspondent adds that India will now need to increase capacity to ensure that both industries and patients do not get in trouble.

  Most oxygen plants are built near cities and large cities.  Therefore, Covid-1 patients have to be sent by special lorries carrying cryogenic tanks to the areas where patients are filling hospitals - there are about 1,100 such vehicles in India.

  For example, many areas - the capital, Delhi - do not have a single oxygen producer, and all supplies come from neighboring regions.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What will be the GDP after Covid-19 in India

  When 60-year-old Milind Ketkar returned home after spending almost a month in hospital fighting Kovid-19, he felt the worst was over.   People had to take him to his third floor flat because there was no elevator in his building.   He spent the next few days experiencing constant shortness of breath and weakness.  When he did not start to feel better, he was admitted to the PD Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai.  Lancelot approached Pinto, where he was treated.   Mr. Ketkar, who thought he had recovered from the virus, was in shock.   Dr Pinter Pinto called it an inflammation of the lungs due to Cofid-19, which gave him deep vein thrombosis, which occurs when blood clots form in the body, often in the legs.   Fragments can break and move the body into the lungs, blocking blood vessels and this can be fatal if not diagnosed and treated in a timely manner, Pin Pinto said. Mr. Ketkar spent the next month confined to his flat, taking pills for his condition...
Post a Comment
Read more

Will countries like USA, UK and China have the first right on corona vaccine? and 2 News

 Will countries like USA, UK and China have the first right on corona vaccine?  The University of Oxford in the United Kingdom has had great success in developing a vaccine for the corona virus.  This university vaccine has been found to be safe for humans.  However, this is an early trend.  It remains to be tried on more people.  The university found during a human trial that the vaccine developed corona virus immunity in people.  The result of the vaccine being tested during phase two in China has come to light on Monday.  According to a report in The Lancet, China has also found positive trends.  A week ago, similar news came from USA.  The vaccine, developed jointly by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc. in the United States, has been shown to benefit people's immune systems in early trials, as scientists had hoped.  Trials for the next phase of this vaccine are still pending.  There are currently...
Post a Comment
Read more

Bollywood: Making money against artists makes it difficult to run a house

 If you are watching a reality show on your TV and that show is causing thunderous applause or laughter sounds, then do not think that everything has happened as before.  These sounds of applause and laughter have been put in the background.  Just like in IPL matches, you hear the noise of the audience.  There has been a stir in Bollywood, which has been lost between the fight with Corona, but even now the situation has not become completely like it was before the arrival of Corona.  The shooting of the film, TV serials, ad films, web series and reality shows has started, but the poor and junior artists, who are associated with this industry and earn a living, are still worried.  Talking about the TV reality program, it has participants, judges, guests are artists, hosts, all technicians are also there, but junior artists are sitting in place of audience. In Kapil Sharma's show, there are cutouts behind Archana Puran Singh instead of Junior Artist, who are ...
Post a Comment
Read more