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

[Jackdaws]

@Jackdaws @padamchen all the other chaddi-bakhts where u at?

More likely that you are a chaddi Bhakt than I am. Where you at?

 

[Suriya]

I mean....you guys have a festival where you celebrate the death of Ravana....and you choose to chastise me because I do not mourn the death of a Nazi who dehumanized us?

Ravana ?? What ingrates u are.

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[Maarkhoor]

Coronavirus live updates: Eight Covid-19 patients die due to oxygen shortage at Delhi hospital
Coronavirus cases in India hit a record daily high with over 4 lakh new infections being reported in the last 24 hours, while the active cases crossed the 32-lakh mark, according to data updated by the Union health ministry on Saturday. The infection tally rose to 1,91,64,969 with 4,01,993 new cases, while the death toll increased to 2,11,853 with 3,523 daily new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed. Registering a steady increase, the active cases have increased to 32,68,710, accounting for 17.06 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate has further dropped to 81.84 per cent. Stay with TOI for all live updates

Coronavirus India live updates: Haryana imposes complete lockdown for 7 days from May 3

Covid’s cruellest month yet in India ended with another global record, as daily cases crossed an unprecedented 4 lakh on Friday, while a staggering 6.9 million (69 lakh) new infections were detected in the country during April, the highest tally for any month in any country so far.

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Former RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin dies of Covid

Former RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin dies of Covid | Delhi News - Times of India

Former RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin passed away at a Delhi hospital on Saturday due to Covid-related complications. He was 53. The Tihar jail authoriti

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Special OPS Actor Bikramjeet Kanwarpal Dies Of COVID-19. Richa Chadha, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Vikram Bhatt And Others Pay Tributes
The 52-year-old actor was a retired Army officer

<i>Special OPS</i> Actor Bikramjeet Kanwarpal Dies Of COVID-19. Richa Chadha, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Vikram Bhatt And Others Pay Tributes

The 52-year-old actor was a retired Army officer

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[beijingwalker]

Experts say India ignored warnings while China vaccinates 11 million citizens in one day

India has recorded more than 4 lac cases in one day while China rushes to vaccinate its population of 1.35 billion. Could the government have saved India from the crisis? Scientists answer here:

By Reuters

1 May 2021

China carried out about 11.6 million vaccinations against COVID-19 on April 30, bringing the total number administered to 265.06 million, according to data released by the National Health Commission on Saturday.

It marks the first time China’s daily vaccination number exceeds 10 million.

China’s vaccination pace has picked up significantly in the last three days of April. China aims to vaccinate 40 percent of its population by June. Therefore, it needs to speed up the vaccination process.

Scientists say the Indian government ignored warnings

A forum of scientific advisers set up by the government warned Indian officials in early March of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus taking hold in the country, five scientists who are part of the forum told Reuters.

Despite the warning, four of the scientists said the federal government did not seek to impose major restrictions to stop the spread of the virus. Millions of largely unmasked people attended religious festivals and political rallies that were held by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and opposition politicians.

Tens of thousands of farmers, meanwhile, continued to camp on the edge of New Delhi protesting Modi’s agricultural policy changes.

The world’s second-most populous country is now struggling to contain a second wave of infections much more severe than its first last year, which some scientists say is being accelerated by the new variant and another variant first detected in Britain. India reported 386,452 new cases on Friday, a global record.

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The spike in infections is India’s biggest crisis since Modi took office in 2014. It remains to be seen how his handling of it might affect Modi or his party politically. The next general election is due in 2024. Voting in the most recent local elections was largely completed before the scale of the new surge in infections became apparent.

The warning about the new variant in early March was issued by the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genetics Consortium, or INSACOG. It was conveyed to a top official who reports directly to the prime minister, according to one of the scientists, the director of a research centre in northern India who spoke on condition of anonymity. Reuters could not determine whether the INSACOG findings were passed on to Modi himself.

Modi’s office did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters.

Experts say India ignored warnings while China vaccinates 11 million citizens in one day

China carried out about 11.6 million vaccinations against COVID-19 on April 30, bringing the total number administered to 265.06 million

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[cao848484]

Your comment reeks of hatred towards muslims with a pretext that muslims celebrate death of Non muslims, while you can find many muslims here who are clearly not rejoicing death of a hidutva supremacist who continued to dehumanized their brothers in India. The justification you are using against Muslims is just like justifications Nazis used against Jews. We aren't rejoicing deaths in India, it were you people who rejoiced PIA plane crash, Mecca crane tragedy and even New Zealand mosque terrorist attack.

 

[vi-va]

India exported 65 millions vaccines for vaccine diplomacy.
BJP/Modi must be drunk.

 

[cao848484]

Some people love India so much that they talk about india 24X7 about India without worring about their own country where people are dying in hundreds due to Chinese virus.

Interesting.

So, it's safe to assume that instead of 200k deaths, India has around half a million deaths.

Mind you, this data is from capital city, the most advance city where data does get recorded unlike rural areas.

my friend
They are superpowers and are always very confident. Introduce you to watching a documentary filmed by a Chinese traveling in India. Search on YouTube雷探长 印度
You will find that everyone in India is asking for money everywhere

 

[beijingwalker]

India exported 65 millions vaccines for vaccine diplomacy.
BJP/Modi must be drunk.

Because he dreamed about "saving the world"

 

[Ali_Baba]

It think it will be a mass culling. 50 to 100 million at a minimum.

And the numbers will be equally horrific in Pakistan if the Indian variants take hold there. There is v. little awareness of Covid SOPs in Pakistan right now from what i see, esp the pictures of iftar based mass gatherings happening right now in Pakistan.

 

[UKBengali]

And the numbers will be equally horrific in Pakistan if the Indian variants take hold there. There is v. little awareness of Covid SOPs in Pakistan right now from what i see, esp the pictures of iftar based mass gatherings happening right now in Pakistan.

Due to a range of factors you are "allowed" a certain amount of social interaction while still keeping the virus at bay. Pakistan is holding the virus at stable levels at around the 5000 mark. BD has more than halved in the last 3 weeks.

As for why India is in this position, well probably a combination of 1 or more more transmissible variants, mass religious gatherings and election rallies. All those came together to create the perfect storm in that country.

 

[kuge]

And the numbers will be equally horrific in Pakistan if the Indian variants take hold there. There is v. little awareness of Covid SOPs in Pakistan right now from what i see, esp the pictures of iftar based mass gatherings happening right now in Pakistan.

did the pak gov broadcast the scenes to the public to warn them?

 

[beijingwalker]

Horrible indeed..

 

[Indos]

Social distancing and discipline to wear mask is the recipe to contain the virus until vaccination reach completion for big countries like Indonesia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh probably next year.

In Indonesia people have pray Jumah (mass prayer) since about June last year and the number of covid alhamduliLLAH keep decreasing. I suggest only Jumah prayer can be established despite in Indonesia during Ramadhan people are also allowed to pray Tarawih (mass prayer) at Mosque every day

 

[cao848484]

It think it will be a mass culling. 50 to 100 million at a minimum.

Many of the deaths in Delhi are from upper middle class families, as can be seen in the videos, yes there are many lower class as well.

Covid-19 is brutally indiscriminatory, in a country based on discrimination, class and creed.

The reason India was never ready for it, thought just as earlier in TB cases poor dies, india has the highest deaths in the world due to TB.

Caught off guard...

 

[lastofthepatriots]

Might be the end of India as we know it...