Skip to content
Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Primary Menu Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

  • Home
  • Newswires
  • Politics & Society
  • The New Feudals
  • World View
  • Arts And Aesthetics
  • For The Record
  • About Us
  • Featured

India’s Covid-19 Death Toll Passes 100,000, No Sign Of An End

Oct 3, 2020 | Pratirodh Bureau

FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment collects a swab sample from a woman, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease in New Delhi on September 29, 2020

India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating.

Total deaths rose to 100,842, the Health Ministry said, while the tally of infections climbed to 6.47 million after a daily increase in cases of 79,476.

India now has the highest rate of daily increase in infections in the world.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, faced with a collapsing economy after imposing a tough lockdown to try to stem the spread of the virus in late March, is pushing ahead with a full opening of the country.

Cinemas were allowed to re-open at half capacity this week and authorities can decide to re-open schools from the middle of this month.

Heading into winter and the holiday season, including the festival of Diwali next month, the world’s second most populous country could see a jump in cases, health experts said.

“We have seen some recent slowdown of the virus curve but this may be a local peak, there may be another coming,” said Bhramar Mukherjee, a professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Michigan.

She said data showed a little over 7% of the population of 1.3 billion had been exposed to the virus, meaning India was still far from any sort of herd immunity.

The number of cases could rise to 12.2 million by the end of the year but the rate of spread would depend on how effective measures such as social distancing were, she said.

“So it will continue like a slow burning coil, that is my hope, and we have to play the long game to stop it from being a wildfire.”

DATA QUESTIONED

The United States, Brazil and India together account for nearly 45% of all COVID-19 deaths globally.

Death rates in India, however, have been significantly lower than in those other two countries, raising questions about the accuracy of its data.

India has, on average, less than one death from the disease for every 10,000 people, while the United States and Brazil have seen six deaths per 10,000.

U.S. President Donald Trump, defending his administration’s handling of the pandemic in this week’s presidential debate, said countries such as India were under-reporting deaths.

Shashank Tripathi, of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, acknowledged there could be problems with the data though India’s young population might help explain the lower death rate.

“In India, even without a pandemic, all deaths are not properly registered,” Tripathi said.

“I’m not very confident that the mortality rates reflect the right numbers, though the younger demographic has given us some advantage.”

Representatives of the Health Ministry and the Indian Council of Medical Research did not immediately respond to calls or emails for comment.

Health experts said there could be greater immunity in India because of the high incidence of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis. Nearly 1,200 people in India die of TB every day, roughly the same as deaths from COVID-19.

Kamakshi Bhate, Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine at the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, said she didn’t expect India’s death toll to surge dramatically even as the virus spreads into dense population clusters and across the countryside.

“People were expecting that entire slums would get wiped out but it didn’t happen that way. We have our own resistance,” she said.

 

Tags: Centre for Infectious Disease Research, coronavirus, COVID-19, Health Ministry, ICMR, Indian Council of Medical Research, Indian Institute of Science, Pratirodh, social distancing

Continue Reading

Previous Protests Rumble Over Gangrape Of Dalit Woman In UP
Next Elon Musk Suggests India Entry In 2021

More Stories

  • Featured

Experts Warn Of Harsher Heatwaves In India

18 hours ago Shalini
  • Featured

An Explainer: Why Building More Will Not Make Houses Affordable

18 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

BJP Can Be Defeated If Opposition Is ‘Aligned Properly’: Rahul

20 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau

Recent Posts

  • Experts Warn Of Harsher Heatwaves In India
  • An Explainer: Why Building More Will Not Make Houses Affordable
  • BJP Can Be Defeated If Opposition Is ‘Aligned Properly’: Rahul
  • Wrestlers Hand Over Medals To Naresh Tikait, Give Govt 5 Days’ Time
  • Women’s Resistance & Rebellion: What Greek Mythology Teaches Us
  • Wrestlers Manhandled: ‘How Can You Sleep At Night?’ Lalan Asks PM Modi
  • India Should Fence Cheetah Habitats, Worst Yet To Come: Expert
  • How Climate Change Worsens Avalanches In The Himalayas
  • “PM Treating Inauguration Of New Parliament Building As Coronation”
  • Book Review: A Deep Dive Into The Imbalances Of Climate Justice In India
  • DU Replaces Paper On Mahatma Gandhi With One On Savarkar
  • India Faces ‘Very Complicated Challenge’ From China: EAM
  • If We Are Smart About Water, We Can Stop Our Cities Sinking
  • Nine Years Of Modi Govt: Congress Poses Nine Questions To PM
  • Explainer: Why Has India Been Soft On Russia?
  • Bihar Heatwave Response Reveals Flaws In Our Heat Strategy
  • Death Of Six Cheetahs At Kuno: NTCA Sets Up ‘High-Power’ Committee
  • Wrestling With Untruths, Abuse & Scorn: When Will It End?
  • Heritage Pumps Used To Green Gardens At Taj Mahal Lost And Found
  • Two Billion People Will Struggle To Survive In A Warming World: Study

Search

Main Links

  • Home
  • Newswires
  • Politics & Society
  • The New Feudals
  • World View
  • Arts And Aesthetics
  • For The Record
  • About Us

Related Stroy

  • Featured

Experts Warn Of Harsher Heatwaves In India

18 hours ago Shalini
  • Featured

An Explainer: Why Building More Will Not Make Houses Affordable

18 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

BJP Can Be Defeated If Opposition Is ‘Aligned Properly’: Rahul

20 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Wrestlers Hand Over Medals To Naresh Tikait, Give Govt 5 Days’ Time

22 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Women’s Resistance & Rebellion: What Greek Mythology Teaches Us

3 days ago Pratirodh Bureau

Recent Posts

  • Experts Warn Of Harsher Heatwaves In India
  • An Explainer: Why Building More Will Not Make Houses Affordable
  • BJP Can Be Defeated If Opposition Is ‘Aligned Properly’: Rahul
  • Wrestlers Hand Over Medals To Naresh Tikait, Give Govt 5 Days’ Time
  • Women’s Resistance & Rebellion: What Greek Mythology Teaches Us
Copyright © All rights reserved. | CoverNews by AF themes.