India sets global record with single-day rise in coronavirus cases

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India sets global record with single-day rise in coronavirus cases

By Mayank Bhardwaj

 

FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) takes a swab from a police officer for a rapid antigen test at a special testing center for Gujarat Police, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Ahmedabad, India, August 17, 2020. REUTERS/Amit Dave

 

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India on Sunday reported the biggest single-day jump in coronavirus infections of any nation in the COVID-19 pandemic, as the epicentre shifts to the south Asian giant.

 

India's 78,761 cases exceeded the 77,299 recorded in the United States on July 16, a Reuters tally of official data showed.

 

The world's second-most populous nation is, with 3.54 million cases, the third-hardest hit by the pandemic, following the United States and Brazil, but its daily tallies have exceeded those of the other two countries for almost two weeks.

 

The COVID-19 death toll in India jumped by 948 to 63,498, the federal health ministry data showed.

 

Maharashtra, India's wealthiest and most urbanised state, recorded 331 fatalities, the steepest single-day increase among all states, followed by the southern state of Karnataka with 136 deaths.

 

India reported the world's highest daily coronavirus case tally on Sunday, as the pandemic passed 25 million infections across the globe. David Doyle reports.

 

Despite the surging case numbers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been pushing for a return to normalcy to lessen the economic pain of the pandemic, having earlier imposed strict lockdowns of the country's 1.3 billion people.

 

The federal home ministry has decided to let underground train networks reopen with some restrictions in New Delhi, India's capital of about 20 million people.

 

The subway will start running on Sept. 7 for the first time since March, when India imposed the world's strictest lockdown to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.

 

Cinemas, swimming pools, entertainment parks and other such places will remain shut.

 

The lockdown has led to large-scale job losses and an economic slump.

 

India's deepest recession on record will persist all year, as a resurgence has squelched a nascent rebound in consumption and business activity, a Reuters poll showed.

 

(Reporting by Mayank Bhardwaj and Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and William Mallard)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-08-31

 

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[Matzzon]

Good Luck, India! 

[Henryford]

There won't be any Indians in Pattaya for quite a while.

[Tug]

That’s sad many will die unfortunately it’s going to be a hellish winter imo

[Bender Rodriguez]

they are a bit late ...  and still low number, specially how you see in what a garbage dump they live...open sewer, spitting everywhere, sh.... in the streets

[chilli42]

Comparing India to the USA or any other country other than China is ludicrous.  Any virus is a numbers game.  If the global death toll from Covid finally settles at the 0.0014 percent of the population (as it seems to be) of course India will have more cases and deaths.  The population is over a billion.  I am surprised how low the numbers in India are.

[ChipButty]

This doesn't surprise me the whole place is a slum I swear I've stepped over dead bodies in Mumbai, I first went to Goa 30 years ago I thought I could live there until I saw the inside of the hospital it looked like something out of Belsen  

[petermik]

10 hours ago, Henryford said:

There won't be any Indians in Pattaya for quite a while.

Funny that.....one of the TAT mandarins only yesterday stated that our Indian friends were waiting in their thousands to return once the doors were open again...oops open mouth put foot in it again...OK they will need a rethink once again....

[vermin on arrival]

Their curve is on the rise, but like all epidemics of this type it will most likely follow gompertz distribution curve that these epidemics are following and will go down. Since India is so large things will probably go longer and be more like the US as things spread to new areas and the epidemic runs it's course in each successive one. It's interesting to see how these types of epidemics work differently in temperate and tropical environments. Places, with weaker nutrition, more poverty and less robust health care systems will have it worse.

[mjakob007]

4 hours ago, chilli42 said:

Comparing India to the USA or any other country other than China is ludicrous.  Any virus is a numbers game.  If the global death toll from Covid finally settles at the 0.0014 percent of the population (as it seems to be) of course India will have more cases and deaths.  The population is over a billion.  I am surprised how low the numbers in India are.

Well said. can only agree 100%

 

one third of the global population lives between china and india.

how can there be such disparity in infections?

85k out of 90 mill tests for china and

3619k out of 41mill tests for India. 

 

This just doesn't add up

[Kadilo]

16 hours ago, Henryford said:

There won't be any Indians in Pattaya for quite a while.

Blimey, where am I goIng to buy a new suit!

[Kadilo]

13 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

they are a bit late ...  and still low number, specially how you see in what a garbage dump they live...open sewer, spitting everywhere, sh.... in the streets

Sounds familiar. 

[Meat Pie 47]

13 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

they are a bit late ...  and still low number, specially how you see in what a garbage dump they live...open sewer, spitting everywhere, sh.... in the streets

Yes just like Thailand

[Scott]

Troll post and replies removed.   Please use the proper name for the virus which is Covid-19.  Other misrepresentation are trolling and will be moved.  

 

[torturedsole]

Not sure what these record-breaking stats bring to the table other than sensationalism. Doesn't make any difference to me as already saw off C19 back in February along with many other people that I know in the UK. If I contract it again this winter then so be it as I found it more enjoyable than the common cold as less severe symptoms. Go figure.  

[CG1 Blue]

To think, just a few months ago we had the USA as the global economic powerhouse, and China and India fighting it out to take their title. China has a clear run to the finish line now, despite the virus coming from their own doorstep. It's hard not to be suspicious. 

[oompie69]

13 hours ago, vermin on arrival said:

Their curve is on the rise, but like all epidemics of this type it will most likely follow gompertz distribution curve that these epidemics are following and will go down. Since India is so large things will probably go longer and be more like the US as things spread to new areas and the epidemic runs it's course in each successive one. It's interesting to see how these types of epidemics work differently in temperate and tropical environments. Places, with weaker nutrition, more poverty and less robust health care systems will have it worse.

Thanks for this. Learned something new today.

[oompie69]

One of the funny things in life, this.

The more they test, the more chances of finding the infected. Up to 40,000,000 as at 27th August. Big jump from 17,000,00 as at 27th July. July 1st they had tested only 9,000,000

tatista.com/statistics/1113465/india-coronavirus-covid-19-tests-cumulative/

[oompie69]

1 hour ago, CG1 Blue said:

To think, just a few months ago we had the USA as the global economic powerhouse, and China and India fighting it out to take their title. China has a clear run to the finish line now, despite the virus coming from their own doorstep. It's hard not to be suspicious. 

That's the secret with any new invention. Once you have perfected it, you sell it off and let the new owners run with it. Then you sit back and enjoy the return on your sweat equity while the new owners sit with all the problems. Who wouldn't want to do that. 

Edited August 31, 2020 by oompie69
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