Covid-19 - Devastating Second Wave in India - Updates and Discussion

[Dalit]

India has already crossed these numbers multiplied by factor two.

 

[Thorough Pro]

Arundhati Roy

 

[fitpOsitive]

India may see 1.02mn Covid deaths by August 1: US-based body
A leading US-based global health research body has projected 1

Funeral pyres of Covid-19 fatalities burn during a mass cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, on Friday. (Bloomberg)
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By Yashwant Raj
UPDATED ON MAY 03, 2021 10:53 PM IST

A leading US-based global health research body has projected 1.02 million cumulative deaths from Covid-19 in India by August 1, with 630,000 additional fatalities from April 26, unless “drastic measures” were taken. The previous projection by this institute for the same end date was 960,000.

The deadly disease crossed another grim milestone last week, becoming the No 1 killer in the country, going up by 78%.

A top official of the Biden administration, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, told ABC news on Sunday the pandemic is “raging out of control” in India. Even as the United States has rushed assistance worth $100 million, it has also announced restrictions on travel from India starting on Tuesday. It bars everyone but US citizens, green card holders, students joining colleges and universities and, certain academics and professionals.

“Without drastic measures to bolster the health system to deal with this onslaught, decreased social mixing, and increased effective face mask use, the situation currently looks quite grim for India,” said an updated country-specific policy briefing from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), a widely regarded independent research wing of the University of Washington based in Seattle.

“IHME’s reference scenario forecasts 1,019,000 Covid-19 deaths in India by August 1, 2021,” it added. The forecast is based on data from April 25 to 30. In the worst case, cumulative deaths could go as high as 1.22 million.

The fatalities can be reduced. “If universal mask coverage (95%) were attained in the next week, our model projects 73,000 fewer cumulative deaths compared to the reference scenario by August 1,” IHME said.

IHME says its projection is based on “what we think is most likely to happen: vaccines are distributed at the expected pace; governments adapt their response by re-imposing social distancing mandates depending on the number of cases per million: how the variants are spreading; and in one-quarter of those vaccinated, mobility increases toward pre-Covid-19 levels.

The research body’s projected toll for India is way past the other countries hits the hardest by the pandemic currently: the United States could see its fatalities rise to 598,882 by August 1; 575,635 in Brazil; 151,000 in the United Kingdom and 234,000 in Mexico.

IHME also forecast daily deaths in India will peak at 12,000 on May 20, pushing forward previous peak day of May 16.

Last week, the policy briefing noted, was perhaps the deadliest overall. The estimated daily deaths in the last week increased to 4,800 per day on average compared to 2,700 the week before, IHME said, adding, this spike made Covid-19 “the number 1 cause of death in India last week”.

Ischemic heart disease was at second position with 29,214; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was third with 17,278; stroke was fourth with 13,444; and diarrheal diseases together were fifth with 12,160 fatalities.

India may see 1.02mn Covid deaths by August 1: US-based body

US national security adviser Jake Sullivan has said the pandemic is “raging out of control” in India

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Very very sad and unfortunate.

 

[CONNAN]

 

[Dalit]

Modi is a killer and a tyrant. A psychopath and a murderer. His Western friends and social media tech companies cannot save his demise.

 

[beijingwalker]

Fareed Zakaria: A second lockdown in India is 'impossible'
CNN's Becky Anderson speaks to CNN's Fareed Zakaria about the coronavirus crisis in India and how the government may not be able to enforce a second national lockdown, even if it wanted to.

 

[SecularNationalist]

I cannot understand amidst this disaster how arnab goswami is still alive?
Wait a minute. ...
Someone said it right only cockroaches can survive a nuclear holocaust here we are just talking about covid.

 

[8888888888888]

Wow

 

[Feng Leng]

People in China are free to have their own opinions like: Indian hygiene make the virus unstoppable.

Too bad Indians aren't allowed to have opinions like: Modi's mishandling caused the second wave

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Condolences for the loss of his mother to COVID...

Even he can't defend India any longer.....

 

[lonelyman]

Here goes -

More schadenfreude from CCP

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Just a reminder. This virus originated in China.

oops poor Indians feeling got hurt

dont be a sissy , cry to modi for modi made disaster

bad taste, maybe, but freedom of speech and you Indians done much worse mocking China when this started

now enjoy your bad karma

 

[lonelyman]

Condolences for the loss of his mother to COVID...

Even he can't defend India any longer.....

modi made disaster

 

[PakSword]

Truly heartbreaking.. Reality!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1389591525554802697

 

[PakSword]

SII CEO Adar Poonawala has left the country with his family amid death threats!

 

[lonelyman]

When I read the thread title I was hoping it didn't refer to The Great Leap Forward.

well you deserve modi ji superb service

SII CEO Adar Poonawala has left the country with his family amid death threats!

Who is this guy?