The situation in India is terrifying. I follow a fair amount of Indians on social media and the amount of resharing asking for hospital beds, for oxygen, for remdesivir, for travel help to get to...
The situation in India is terrifying. I follow a fair amount of Indians on social media and the amount of resharing asking for hospital beds, for oxygen, for remdesivir, for travel help to get to a hospital is horrifying. It seems the fears we had in the UK (and the west) of hospitals being overwhelmed has become a reality in much of India. In dozens of hospitals their oxygen is being limited to 3-4 hours a day. There doesn't seem to be the political or social will to enforce a proper lockdown.
India leads the world in the daily average number of new infections reported, accounting for one in every four infections worldwide each day.
India’s tally of total infections is second only to that of the United States, with experts blaming everything from official complacency to aggressive variants. The government has blamed failure to practise physical distancing.
The second surge of COVID-19 cases in India has swamped hospitals much faster than the first because mutations in the virus mean each patient is infecting many more people than before, epidemiologists and doctors say.
Note that most official statistics from India, alarming as they are, seem to be severe under counts based on a Financial Times analysis. I posted their article about it here. The reporter writes...
Note that most official statistics from India, alarming as they are, seem to be severe under counts based on a Financial Times analysis. I posted their article about it here.
overall, numbers of Covid victims who have been cremated are 10x larger than official Covid death counts in same areas. [...] If applied nationally, that would mean that instead of 1,700 deaths per day, India is currently seeing 17,000.
The situation in India is terrifying. I follow a fair amount of Indians on social media and the amount of resharing asking for hospital beds, for oxygen, for remdesivir, for travel help to get to a hospital is horrifying. It seems the fears we had in the UK (and the west) of hospitals being overwhelmed has become a reality in much of India. In dozens of hospitals their oxygen is being limited to 3-4 hours a day. There doesn't seem to be the political or social will to enforce a proper lockdown.
Note that most official statistics from India, alarming as they are, seem to be severe under counts based on a Financial Times analysis. I posted their article about it here.
The reporter writes on Twitter: