India's Low Number Of Coronavirus Cases Could Be Result Of Low Testing

[PradoTLC]

Any source of urine in not good, if you are dieing without a water and you need to drink for your survival then people can drink but also it can cause for medical health. It is not a good for health (Generally) but a few hindu politicians and so called saadhu ------ they do foolish things to get attentions...

those few foolish leaders are currently ruling your country..

 

[graphican]

Bottom up every one!!!


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Indians are out of science and sense.

 

[PradoTLC]

@Raj-Hindustani no point. If someone has decided that meaningful discussion is not on the menu today, best to ignore.

meaning ful?..

you mean your attempt to camouflage a ridiculous behavior?...


then again you did claim you did shoot down a F-16 when the rest of the planet didnt think so.

 

[Sc0lar_Vis@ri]

Yeah sure...whatever floats your boat. Lol

 

[Smarana Mitra]

Any source of urine in not good, if you are dieing without a water and you need to drink for your survival then people can drink but also it can cause for medical health. It is not a good for health (Generally) but a few hindu politicians and so called saadhu ------ they do foolish things to get attentions...

One never drinks salt water to quench thirst as that can result in severe dehydration and death caused by excessive salt absorption.

But that doesn't mean cow urine is bad for health. If consumed in small quantities in right mixture with other herbs and medicines, it actually has the medicine to combat a few diseases. Of course, corona virus is not something that can be cured using cow urine. Moreover, cow urine is not to be drunk in large quantities in a glass but only consumed in few ml at a time.

 

[Raj-Hindustani]

meaning ful?..

you mean your attempt to camouflage a ridiculous behavior?...


then again you did claim you did shoot down a F-16 when the rest of the planet didnt think so.

Pls it is same as you claim to shoot down a su 30mki... Don't go to off-topic

One never drinks salt water to quench thirst as that can result in severe dehydration and death caused by excessive salt absorption.

But that doesn't mean cow urine is bad for health. If consumed in small quantities in right mixture with other herbs and medicines, it actually has the medicine to combat a few diseases. Of course, corona virus is not something that can be cured using cow urine. Moreover, cow urine is not to be drunk in large quantities in a glass but only consumed in few ml at a time.

Ohh pls.... Give me any link with confirmation from medical institute or scientific sources to proof your claim... I don't believe on Bullshits pandit or so called fake saadhu or few political leaders...

 

[Surya 1]

These B**t hurt people who are unable to contain epidamic in their own country are hell band to prove that India ia actually affected. It is actually the puzzle for Bat soup drinker and chicken eater that why India is not badly affected as they are. Better they focus on their own country rather than doing all these butt hurt.

If detection is low, naturally, the deaths should be high. In India, people are not dying so assume that the low numbers of affected people are because of not detection is baseless.

 

[CrazyZ]

Woman Who Fled Agra Hospital Tests Positive For Coronavirus
So far, there have been seven positive cases in the Taj city and five of the patients have recovered from the novel coronavirus.
All IndiaPress Trust of IndiaUpdated: March 16, 2020 07:32 pm IST




by Taboola
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Coronavirus: Over 100 have been tested positive for the virus in India (File)



"The woman has tested positive for the coronavirus on Sunday and has been hospitalised for treatment. Eight of her family members have also been quarantined.

There is one more man who has tested positive earlier and is undergoing treatment. Eleven of his family members have been quarantined. So far, there have been seven positive cases of COVID-19 in Agra, five of them have been treated and sent home," a Health Department official told news agency PTI.

The woman's father, a government employee, was on Sunday booked under sections 269 (unlawfully or negligently doing any act which is, and which he knows is likely to spread the infection of any disease dangerous to life) and 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) after he allegedly misled health and administration officials regarding his daughter's whereabouts.

This was perhaps the first case in the country in which an FIR has been registered against any person for concealing information or misleading authorities over coronavirus, a day after the Uttar Pradesh government invoked the Epidemic Act to prevent the spread of the virus that has rattled people globally.

"The woman has tested positive for the coronavirus on Sunday and has been hospitalised for treatment. Eight of her family members have also been quarantined.

There is one more man who has tested positive earlier and is undergoing treatment. Eleven of his family members have been quarantined. So far, there have been seven positive cases of COVID-19 in Agra, five of them have been treated and sent home," a Health Department official told news agency PTI.

The woman's father, a government employee, was on Sunday booked under sections 269 (unlawfully or negligently doing any act which is, and which he knows is likely to spread the infection of any disease dangerous to life) and 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) after he allegedly misled health and administration officials regarding his daughter's whereabouts.

This was perhaps the first case in the country in which an FIR has been registered against any person for concealing information or misleading authorities over coronavirus, a day after the Uttar Pradesh government invoked the Epidemic Act to prevent the spread of the virus that has rattled people globally.
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/cor...spital-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-2195749

 

[PradoTLC]

Yeah sure...whatever floats your boat. Lol

water does float my boat... but not cow piss

These B**t hurt people who are unable to contain epidamic in their own country are hell band to prove that India ia actually affected. It is actually the puzzle for Bat soup drinker and chicken eater that why India is not badly affected as they are. Better they focus on their own country rather than doing all these butt hurt.

If detection is low, naturally, the deaths should be high. In India, people are not dying so assume that the low numbers of affected people are because of not detection is baseless.

most indian probably are ignorant of the virus.. like they are ignorant of cow piss drinking harmful effects...

But that doesn't mean cow urine is bad for health. If consumed in small quantities in right mixture with other herbs and medicines, it actually has the medicine to combat a few diseases

muhahhahahhahhaha hahhahhahahhahahhahhahahahhaha

These B**t hurt people who are unable to contain epidamic in their own country are hell band to prove that India ia actually affected. It is actually the puzzle for Bat soup drinker and chicken eater that why India is not badly affected as they are. Better they focus on their own country rather than doing all these butt hurt.

If detection is low, naturally, the deaths should be high. In India, people are not dying so assume that the low numbers of affected people are because of not detection is baseless.

Read for your education.

India could be next virus hotspot with an 'avalanche' of cases
Experts say containment measures proved successful elsewhere may not work in India

Published: March 17, 2020 11:21Bloomberg

Delhi: India could become the next global hotspot for virus cases, with experts warning containment measures that proved successful elsewhere in Asia may not work in the world's second-most populous country.

The South Asian nation, which has so far reported 125 infections and three deaths, is trying to contain the virus by closing its borders, testing incoming travelers and contact tracing from those who tested positive.

But some experts in the nation of 1.3 billion people say that won't be enough to contain the spread. Other measures like widespread testing and social distancing may be infeasible in cities with a high population density and rickety health infrastructure.


While growth in total numbers has been slow until now, "the number will be 10 times higher" by April 15, said Dr. T. Jacob John, the former head of the Indian Council for Medical Research's Centre for Advanced Research in Virology, a government-funded institution.

"They are not understanding that this is an avalanche," said John, who was also chairman of the Indian Government Expert Advisory Group on Polio Eradication and chief of the National HIV/AIDS Reference Centre at the Christian Medical College in the southern city of Vellore. "As every week passes, the avalanche is growing bigger and bigger."

Financial Capital
So far India has been relatively unscathed from the virus compared with other countries in Asia. Countries from Italy to Malaysia have started locking down large parts of the country, following China's move to reduce the pace of new infections by isolating Hubei province, where the outbreak first took hold.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said India's doing it's best to fight the spread of the virus.

A health worker checks the body temperature of a worker amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Chennai on March 16, 2020.Image Credit: AFP

A key concern in India is Maharashtra, the state with the highest urbanization in India and home to the financial capital Mumbai and benchmark stock exchange, which has reported the biggest spread of the infection with 39 cases. Its government has called for a virtual lockdown of cities in the state on March 16 - shuttering all public places and putting off university exams and asking government offices and private companies to allow employees to make sure at least half their staff work from home at any given time.

"Maharashtra is in the second stage at the moment," Rajesh Tope, Maharashtra's health minister told reporters in Mumbai. "But if we don't curtail or stop the infection from spreading this contagious disease we could slip to stage three and that would mean a spike in the number of infections," he said. "We have to contain this disease under any circumstances."

Population Density
In the city of Pune a trade association has decided to shut all shops and markets for three days to try and stem infections.

Apart from its sheer size, India's other challenge is the density of its population: 420 people live on each square kilometer (about 0.4 of a square mile), compared with 148 per square kilometer in China. Its cities are crammed with slums and low-income housing clusters where the living conditions are tight.

While South Korea was able to test even asymptomatic people, India's population "makes it extremely difficult," said Dr. K. Srinath Reddy, adjunct professor of epidemiology at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University and president of the New Delhi-based health think-tank Public Health Foundation of India.

"Social distancing is something often talked about but only works well for the urban middle class," he added said. "It doesn't work well for the urban poor or the rural population where its extremely difficult both in terms of compactly packed houses, but also because many of them have to go to work in areas which are not necessarily suitable for social distancing."

India on Tuesday announced that state-authorized private laboratories would be allowed to conduct tests. But the government has yet to release the list of authorized labs, according to Dr Lokesh Kumar Sharma, spokesman for the Indian Council of Medical Research said.

A worker disinfects the interiors of a passenger train parked at a railway station as a preventive measure against coronavirus, in New Delhi on March 16, 2020.Image Credit: REUTERS

Surging Infections
The pandemic, which has infected 174,000 worldwide, with deaths topping 7000, has a pattern of surging after an initial slower phase. This was seen in nations such as South Korea and Italy - the worst-affected countries outside of mainland China, where the highly contagious pathogen first emerged in December.

South Korea, which had a 2,000% jump in cases in a week last month, slowed the outbreak and deaths by testing hundreds of thousands of people in clinics and drive-through stations.

More than 5,200 potential cases have been identified through contact-tracing and put under surveillance, the health ministry said late Monday. Last week India suspended most visas in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus. It decided on Friday to limit international traffic through the land route to 19 of 37 border check posts.

The country's response to the coronavirus spread is led in large part by the limitations of its public health system, Reddy said. India's health-care spending is among the lowest in the world - just 3.7% of gross domestic product. That's left it with a patchwork of overcrowded public hospitals, and private ones that are unaffordable for many people.

"I have reservations about our capacities to deal with this," said Reddy. "Right now our responses are strategic to the extent that our resources permit."

 

[SrNair]

Pls it is same as you claim to shoot down a su 30mki... Don't go to off-topic



Ohh pls.... Give me any link with confirmation from medical institute or scientific sources to proof your claim... I don't believe on Bullshits pandit or so called fake saadhu or few political leaders...

Panchagavya is using in India for thousands of years .So far there was no kind mass infections recorded in history.
But this drama is only for publicity.

And sometimes to fight a poison ,modern medical science also use counter poison.
And read how they developed vaccine for smallpox

 

[PakSword]

Can't reveal much, but India is in top three in the number of Corona patients in gulf.. The top country's name starts with letter 'A'.

 

[Enigma SIG]

If consumed in small quantities in right mixture with other herbs and medicines, it actually has the medicine to combat a few diseases.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[vishwambhar]

Main reason for low cases of corona in India is it's now summer starting and in southern parts temperature is already 30+... Post may it will go up further.... Covid 19 can't survive above temperature 26-27....

 

[Surya 1]

water does float my boat




muhahhahahhahhaha hahhahhahahhahahhahhahahahhaha





Read for your education.

India could be next virus hotspot with an 'avalanche' of cases
Experts say containment measures proved successful elsewhere may not work in India

Published: March 17, 2020 11:21Bloomberg

Delhi: India could become the next global hotspot for virus cases, with experts warning containment measures that proved successful elsewhere in Asia may not work in the world's second-most populous country.

The South Asian nation, which has so far reported 125 infections and three deaths, is trying to contain the virus by closing its borders, testing incoming travelers and contact tracing from those who tested positive.

But some experts in the nation of 1.3 billion people say that won't be enough to contain the spread. Other measures like widespread testing and social distancing may be infeasible in cities with a high population density and rickety health infrastructure.


While growth in total numbers has been slow until now, "the number will be 10 times higher" by April 15, said Dr. T. Jacob John, the former head of the Indian Council for Medical Research's Centre for Advanced Research in Virology, a government-funded institution.

"They are not understanding that this is an avalanche," said John, who was also chairman of the Indian Government Expert Advisory Group on Polio Eradication and chief of the National HIV/AIDS Reference Centre at the Christian Medical College in the southern city of Vellore. "As every week passes, the avalanche is growing bigger and bigger."

Financial Capital
So far India has been relatively unscathed from the virus compared with other countries in Asia. Countries from Italy to Malaysia have started locking down large parts of the country, following China's move to reduce the pace of new infections by isolating Hubei province, where the outbreak first took hold.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said India's doing it's best to fight the spread of the virus.

A health worker checks the body temperature of a worker amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Chennai on March 16, 2020.Image Credit: AFP

A key concern in India is Maharashtra, the state with the highest urbanization in India and home to the financial capital Mumbai and benchmark stock exchange, which has reported the biggest spread of the infection with 39 cases. Its government has called for a virtual lockdown of cities in the state on March 16 - shuttering all public places and putting off university exams and asking government offices and private companies to allow employees to make sure at least half their staff work from home at any given time.

"Maharashtra is in the second stage at the moment," Rajesh Tope, Maharashtra's health minister told reporters in Mumbai. "But if we don't curtail or stop the infection from spreading this contagious disease we could slip to stage three and that would mean a spike in the number of infections," he said. "We have to contain this disease under any circumstances."

Population Density
In the city of Pune a trade association has decided to shut all shops and markets for three days to try and stem infections.

Apart from its sheer size, India's other challenge is the density of its population: 420 people live on each square kilometer (about 0.4 of a square mile), compared with 148 per square kilometer in China. Its cities are crammed with slums and low-income housing clusters where the living conditions are tight.

While South Korea was able to test even asymptomatic people, India's population "makes it extremely difficult," said Dr. K. Srinath Reddy, adjunct professor of epidemiology at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University and president of the New Delhi-based health think-tank Public Health Foundation of India.

"Social distancing is something often talked about but only works well for the urban middle class," he added said. "It doesn't work well for the urban poor or the rural population where its extremely difficult both in terms of compactly packed houses, but also because many of them have to go to work in areas which are not necessarily suitable for social distancing."

India on Tuesday announced that state-authorized private laboratories would be allowed to conduct tests. But the government has yet to release the list of authorized labs, according to Dr Lokesh Kumar Sharma, spokesman for the Indian Council of Medical Research said.

A worker disinfects the interiors of a passenger train parked at a railway station as a preventive measure against coronavirus, in New Delhi on March 16, 2020.Image Credit: REUTERS

Surging Infections
The pandemic, which has infected 174,000 worldwide, with deaths topping 7000, has a pattern of surging after an initial slower phase. This was seen in nations such as South Korea and Italy - the worst-affected countries outside of mainland China, where the highly contagious pathogen first emerged in December.

South Korea, which had a 2,000% jump in cases in a week last month, slowed the outbreak and deaths by testing hundreds of thousands of people in clinics and drive-through stations.

More than 5,200 potential cases have been identified through contact-tracing and put under surveillance, the health ministry said late Monday. Last week India suspended most visas in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus. It decided on Friday to limit international traffic through the land route to 19 of 37 border check posts.

The country's response to the coronavirus spread is led in large part by the limitations of its public health system, Reddy said. India's health-care spending is among the lowest in the world - just 3.7% of gross domestic product. That's left it with a patchwork of overcrowded public hospitals, and private ones that are unaffordable for many people.

"I have reservations about our capacities to deal with this," said Reddy. "Right now our responses are strategic to the extent that our resources permit."

I can understand your b**t hurt. If there is minimal effect of corona in India, stupid people say that India can be next hot spot. What is that which makes India most secure from corona virus which which will not be be there in future and India will become corona virus hub?

most indian probably are ignorant of the virus.. like they are ignorant of cow piss drinking harmful effects...

But it seems that you are well aware of benefits of camel piss and bat soup.

 

[CrazyZ]

India's stringent virus testing criteria may mask toll
Indian authorities say they are not expanding their testing for the new coronavirus, as most affected nations are doing, despite mounting criticism that the limited tests could mask the true toll of the disease in the world's second most populous country
By
EMILY SCHMALL and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press
March 17, 2020, 9:12 AM
6 min read

NEW DELHI -- A British citizen appeared at a public hospital in India's capital with a cough, difficulty breathing and a private clinic's referral for a coronavirus test. She was turned away.

Indian authorities said Tuesday that they are not expanding testing for the virus, as most affected nations are doing, despite mounting criticism from some experts that the limited tests could mask the true toll of the disease in the world's second most populous country.

The World Health Organization has urged countries to test as many people as possible to curb the pandemic, but India has taken a different approach, limiting testing to those who have traveled from affected countries or come in contact with a confirmed case and shown symptoms after two weeks of quarantine.

Indian authorities said the WHO guidance didn't apply in India because the spread of the disease has been less severe than elsewhere. Balaram Bharghava, who heads the Indian Council of Medical Research, India's top medical research body, said the guidance was “premature” for India, where community transmission hadn't yet been detected.

"Therefore it creates more fear, more paranoia and more hype," he said.

The British patient sent home from the hospital last week in New Delhi didn't fulfill India's testing criteria.

The woman, who requested anonymity fearing business consequences for her employer, said she told hospital officials that she may have had contact with a coronavirus patient in her hospitality sector job, but couldn't be sure.

After trying and failing to be tested a second time, she left India this week for France, where her family lives, and which President Emmanuel Macron said Monday was “at war” with the virus, announcing extreme measures to curb the disease.

Indian authorities have justified their strict testing limits as a way to keep a deluge of people from demanding tests that would cost the government money it needs to combat other diseases such as tuberculosis, malnutrition and HIV/AIDs.

ICMR said on Tuesday that there was no need to offer such testing more widely. However, authorities said they're preparing for community spread by bolstering their lab testing infrastructure.

As a result of the stringent criteria, sick people with potential exposure to the new virus are being sent home, and some experts fear that India's caseload could be much higher than government statistics indicate.

Bharghava said virus infections in India can still be traced back to people who traveled into the country from affected locales. He said if community transmission is detected, then testing protocols would be revised.

Authorities have confirmed 126 cases, most of which have been “imported” — linked to foreign travel or direct contact with someone who caught the disease abroad.

India is conducting only about 90 tests per day, despite having the capacity for as many as 8,000. So far, 11,500 people have been tested.

But concerns of so-far undetected communal spread are growing.

“Given the pattern of disease in other places, and given our low level of testing, then I do think that community transmission is happening, ” said Dr. Gagandeep Kang, the director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute.

In India, where more than 400 million people live in crowded cities, including many without regular access to clean water, the disease could spread rapidly, experts say.

"Community spread is very likely. But the only way to know for sure is through more expansive testing," said Dr. Anant Bhan, a global health researcher in Bhopal, India.

The virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough, for most people, but severe illness is more likely in the elderly and people with existing health problems.

India has a lower proportion of elderly than other countries, but its health care facilities are limited and already can't accommodate the large number of patients with other diseases.

“This along with our high population density can be our great challenge,” said public health researcher Oommen Kurian.

India has been reluctant to expand testing, not wanting to trigger panic and overwhelm hospitals, but also because of the cost: While the tests are free for patients, each one costs the government about 5,000 rupees ($67).

In an already stretched and underfunded public health care system, money spent on the coronavirus leaves less for other public health problems.

The coronavirus may also be spreading in India because health officials have struggled to maintain quarantines, with people fleeing from isolation wards, complaining of filthy conditions.

In the central state of Maharashtra, five people, one of whom had tested negative and the rest who were awaiting test results, walked out of an isolation ward last Saturday.

India has implemented a 19th century epidemic law that empowers public officials to enforce more rigorous containment measures and impose penalties and punishments for escapes.

Lav Agarwal, a health ministry official, rued that authorities "often don't get enough support from people.”

Similarly, in neighboring Sri Lanka, the government has ordered about 170 passengers who evaded airport screening after returning from several affected countries to report to police or face financial penalties and possible imprisonment.

Aditya Bhatnagar, an Indian university student who was studying in Spain, described unsanitary conditions at an isolation ward where he and 50 others passengers on a Barcelona flight have been kept since landing in New Delhi on Monday.

Bhatnagar said the rooms, shared by around eight people each, lacked basic hygiene features such as clean bed sheets and bathrooms. He said the group, awaiting their COVID-19 test results, was not provided with masks or sanitizer.

“I don’t think these measures would be enough to contain the pandemic,” Bhatnagar said, adding that some passengers had opted to move from the wards and into private hotels, paying 4,000 rupees ($55) a night to self-isolate for at least 14 days.

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Associated Press writers Sheikh Saaliq in New Delhi and Bharatha Mallawarachi in Colombo, Sri Lanka, contributed to this report.

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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/indias-stringent-virus-testing-criteria-mask-toll-69637790

This case only made the headline because it was a foreign national. Patients with definitive corona virus symptoms, fever, cough, and trouble breathing with a doctors referral are not being tested in India. Many reports of people escaping quarantine in India. It is naive to assume the best case, better cautious then sorry.