The Accelerated Spread Of Coronavirus Results In 5 Million Cases In India, America Still Shows A Maximum Spike
India dealt with more than 5 million COVID-19 positive cases on Wednesday and the number may increase in the thousands of unregulated villages and improvised cities. The health care system of the cities is not strong enough to provide rapid testing.
The Health Ministry reported 90,123 new cases in the past 24 hours that increased the number of total cases to 5,020,359, stating clearly about 0.35% of its nearly 1.4 billion population is being affected by the virus infection. There were 1290 deaths in the last 24 hours which makes the total number of deaths 82,066.
India’s total number of coronavirus cases may surpass the United States’ highest tally of more than 6.6 million cases within a few weeks if they face such a huge spike of outbreak daily.
India reported COVID-19 positive cases of 97,570 in a day on September 11, making it the highest daily record of the spread. India got a new 1 million cases only in one month.
Experts are disappointed with such a ceaseless spread of the virus in the vast country and fear that India’s case-fatality rate can increase in the coming weeks because lockdown restrictions are abrogated from most of the cities. It is only affected in high-risk areas but the government has become lenient about the lockdowns amid the other political crisis.
Indian Government bowed out from imposing any other nationwide lockdown as the recovery rate has moved up to 78%. Its fatality rate is 1.6%, which is much lower than 3% that is the current position in the United States and Brazil, according to the Johns Hopkins Medicine and University.
Dr. Gagandeep Kang, an infectious diseases expert from Christian Medical College in the southern Indian state of Vellore, said in the interview that it was not possible to avoid such a surge of infection in a country like India. But the country still had the facility and chance to prevent the mass spread and restrict it to minimum reaches with strategically isolating the COVID-19 positive victims and increase rapid testing.
Dr. Gagandeep Kang said, “the goal was for India to do enough testing to bring down test positivity rate, or fraction of tests that test positive to less than 5 percent or even less than 1 percent.”
The report shows that most of the death due to COVID-19 occurred in densely populated, large cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, and Pune. Small centres of Maharashtra, cities like Nagpur or Jalgaon have known deaths with 1000 cases.
Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said on Tuesday that only about 6% of the coronavirus patients in India were on oxygen _ 0.31% on ventilators, 2.17% on intensive care unit beds with oxygen, and 3.69% on oxygen beds.
Maharashtra has been struck hard by coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic. With over 1 million COVID-19 positive cases, the state remains the worst affected zone in India. Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Uttar Pradesh are also badly affected by the virus outbreak.
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