COVID 19 - INDIA CLIMBING TO THE TOP


Despite a slow start India has now accelerated the pace and reached 4th on the ladder just behind US, Brazil and Russia in the ranking of Covid 19. Let us go through the figures:

Reported cases as on date is 3,09,603 and deaths 8,890. Active cases 1,46,383. Cases per 1 million population is 224 and death per million is 6. Population is 1,37,92,70,740.

Cumulative cases - 3 on February 15, 100 on March 14,  16,365 on April 18, 1,06,475 on May 19,  2,46,622 on June 6 and 2,98,283 on June 11. Daily New cases 0 on March 11,  573 on April 7, 2,963 on May 5,  5,553 on May 20,  8,823 on June 02,  11,128 on  June 11.

Cumulative deaths - 0 on February 19,  24 on March 28,  1,223 on May 01,  4,024 on May 24,  6,363 on June 04 and 8,501 on June 11. Daily new deaths - 0 on March 07,  18 on April 6,  100 on May 02,  132 on May 20,  269 on May 29 and 388 on June 10.

Though we could begin fairly well we have continuously slipped on the way. The serious delay we made in bringing back the migrant workers to their home states and repatriate our people from other countries have significantly contributed the spread and caused good number of deaths of our people  abroad and within the country. If we could do these two massive operations well before the first lock down the spread could have contained effectively. There are also few occasions where state and central governments publicly expressed some differences between the two. 

However, we should not try to fix the responsibility on one another. What we need is to eradicate the deadly disease at the earliest with the minimum damage. In the next post we will discuss about ways and means to shunt out the pandemic strictly within five weeks from our country. It is to be stressed once again that there is only one way to eradicate Covid 19 and that is Identification and Isolation.

KV George
kvgeorgein@gmail.com

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