Another Record Day in India - 402,110 new cases

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Actually India is doing very well by comparison. There are other countries in Europe where the cases per million are far higher.

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India’s COVID-19 deaths will rise sharply till mid-May—US study
The Straits Times/Asia News Network / 12:43 PM April 29, 2021

Some 200,000 more people are expected to die from Covid-19 in India over the next three weeks. REUTERS via The Straits Times/Asia News Network
SINGAPORE — India this week has set fresh records for new Covid-19 cases and deaths again, as a US study forecast daily fatalities in the country climbing further until mid-May.
Some 200,000 more people are expected to die from Covid-19 in India over the next three weeks before the daily death toll starts to fall, according to a study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in the United States. At its peak – around May 16 – India is likely to see more than 13,000 Covid-19 deaths a day, the projections showed.
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That’s more than four times the 2,812 deaths the country reported on Monday, already another record high. New fatalities have been hitting fresh records every day over the past week. Daily infections also set a new global record for a fifth straight day, with 352,991 cases reported overnight, health ministry data showed.
The trajectory of countries’ daily coronavirus deaths is considered the best indicator of the progression of the pandemic, although there is generally a 17- to 21-day lag between infections and deaths, according to the IHME study. The projection model’s numbers differ from officially reported figures as they take into account potential under-reporting in some regions and average some data.

In all, India has reported more than 17 million coronavirus cases and over 195,000 deaths. But health experts say the true figures are likely to be much higher.
IHME director Christopher Murray said in a briefing on the study last Friday (April 23) that sero-prevalance surveys suggest that India may be detecting less than 5 percent of its total infected population.



































































“This means that the number of cases that are being detected needs to be multiplied by 20 or more to get the number of infections that are occurring in India,” he said. “The number of infections right now is extraordinarily large.”
The IHME study said there had been a declining trend in the number of daily Covid-19 cases and deaths in India from September to mid-February. But a dramatic reversal came this month, with a sudden, significant jump in infections.
Nearly one in every four people in India is likely to have been infected by the coronavirus, according to the institute’s report. And Covid-19 has become the country’s fifth biggest cause of death.
India’s total coronavirus death toll is projected to near 960,000 by Aug 1, the IHME model showed. But about 80,000 of those lives can be saved if 95 per cent of the population adhere to using masks in public. A projected vaccine roll-out – if kept on track – may save another 85,600 lives, the report said.
Globally, the projection model has the tally of fatalities topping five million by Aug 1. A worst-case scenario accounting for looser social distancing measures puts the number at 5.4 million. The current toll stands at over 3.1 million.
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Such projections may be reliable only in the short term, however, says Professor Gautam Menon from Ashoka University in India. The professor of physics and biology, who has conducted his own independent Covid-19 calculations, told Indian news agency PTI: “Any excessively precise prediction, of a peak within just a five-day window would ignore the many uncertainties associated with the inputs to any such calculation.”
Countries around the world have pledged to help India stem its outbreak as the South Asian nation’s healthcare system teeters on the brink of collapse with desperately ill patients being turned away from overcrowded hospitals grappling with a severe shortage of beds and oxygen.
Several cities have ordered curfews, while police have been deployed to enforce social distancing and mask-wearing. The southern state of Karnataka, home to the tech city of Bengaluru, ordered a 14-day lockdown from Tuesday, joining the western industrial state of Maharashtra, whose lockdown runs until May 1.



Some states were set to lift the lockdown measures this week, though. Public health experts fear the patchy curbs, complicated by local elections and mass festival gatherings, could prompt further breakouts elsewhere.
Politicians, especially Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have faced criticism for holding rallies during state election campaigns that drew thousands, packed into stadiums and grounds. Mr Modi over the weekend pleaded for all citizens to get vaccinated and exercise caution to bring the rampaging outbreak under control.

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When it comes to shear numbers nothing is as bad as the European Union.

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Wrong. Again. Call it 0 for 152 tries. Did you receive a basic education?

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Brazil's COVID-19 Deaths Top 400,000 Amid Fears Of Worsening Crisis

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April 29, 202110:01 PM ET

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With little space left at Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, graves of COVID-19 victims line a street, seen in an aerial photo taken on Thursday as the country passed 400,000 virus deaths.
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Brazil surpassed 400,000 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday at the tail-end of the country's deadliest month of the pandemic yet.
At last count, 401,186 people had died in Brazil based on data tracked by Johns Hopkins University, a toll only the U.S. has topped.
More Brazilians have died from the virus in the first four months of this year than in all of 2020, with the death toll having jumped from 300,000 to 400,000 in the past five weeks alone.
The daily average of deaths has dipped recently, from over 3,000 two weeks ago to an average of fewer than 2,400 deaths, according to Brazil's health ministry.
Health systems remain under intense pressure and — between the relaxation of COVID-19 measures, a sluggish vaccine rollout and the spread of a more contagious virus variant — experts predict the pandemic will soon get worse.
Fewer than 7% of Brazilians are fully vaccinated. A shortage of vaccine supplies has prevented some from getting their crucial second dose.
Brazilians are increasingly resisting social distancing as towns and cities ease restrictions, cheered on by President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Bolsonaro, who continues to attack COVID-19 restrictions, has been widely criticized for his handling of the health crisis. In a television interview on Friday, the president accused governors of using lockdowns to suppress the public's right to freedom of movement and threatened to use military force to intervene.
A Senate commission will scrutinize Bolsonaro's conduct as part of an investigation it launched this week into the government's response to the pandemic. Senators want to know why Bolsonaro defied medical expertise to promote anti-malarial drugs as a coronavirus cure and why he blocked the purchase of some vaccines last year.
In a brief video message after his country reached the latest benchmark, Bolsonaro said in a video broadcast posted to his social media accounts that "a big number of deaths has been announced," according to The Associated Press, and that he is "sorry for every death." But he repeated his opposition to social distancing measures.
"I pray to God so there is not a third wave," Bolsonaro said. "But if the lockdown policies continue this country will be dragged to extreme poverty."