What’s going on? India played through the book, stopped flights from China and Europe and acted temporarily to impose a draconian blockade on March 25 in Brazil.
While this is a smaller number of our giga-standard population, it is a huge number at all levels.In addition, last week we added more instances than the United States and Brazil.
It would be simple to blame the government, but other countries later reacted and moved further away.Take a look at our neighbors, for example, but keep in mind that their numbers may be reduced because they did fewer tests for Covid-19 than we did.Made.
However, there is a stark contrast between India and the rest of South and Southeast Asia.Just take a look at Pakistan, which has been closing the province and then resorted to what it called “smart locks,” end-point communities.WHO) has strongly warned Pakistan to oppose the “early lifting of restrictions”.As of June 24, Pakistan had 188,926 cases compared to 440,215 cases in India, a higher number given that its population is less than one-sixth of ours.have gone from a count of more than 6,000 instances to 679.
As for Afghanistan, many experts predicted it would be a Covid-19 crisis zone due to a lack of fitness services and the fact that many Afghans paint in quarries in neighboring Iran.Afghan personnel were stationed on overcrowded buses and driven back across the border.So far, it claims to have only 37,676 cases and 1,377 deaths.
Inevitably, experts say that Afghan figures will have to be largely underestimated, but predictions of the crisis do not appear to have occurred.
It is the same trend in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and even in Myanmar with which we coincide with a percentage of a border of 1,643 km.Bangladesh had its first cases of Covid-19 in April and peaked in June in just over 4000 in line with the day.have since fallen and ranked 2,024 on August 14.On par with Bangladesh figures, the country has the lowest proportion of test cases/positive cases in the region, so unfortunately they can underestimate the figures.
Myanmar recorded only 375 cases and six deaths, of which 69 returned from India and the country and said its first case was transmitted a few days ago.
You can help Myanmar by the fact that it is one of the hermit kingdoms of the world, at the end of globalization and that it still receives few foreign tourists.
The same is true in Asia, as Thailand, one of the world’s largest tourist destinations, in 2010, Thais had about 15.94 million tourists a year, increasing to 29 million in 2019.awarded for answering correctly. In 2019, 11 million Chinese tourists headed to Thailand’s beaches and the enchanting greenlands.
So it’s no wonder when Thailand was the first country to have a case showed of Covid-19 after China.On March 22, Thais shot their neighbors with 188 cases.But then the infection disappeared as suddenly as it arrived and after April 25, Thais reported fewer than 20 cases a day.
The New York Times reports that the Mekong Delta countries Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia have also had a small number of cases, as has Yunnan, the neighboring province of China.
One of the explanations presented through Thai doctors is that there is no resistance to dressing in a mask and that the country does not have a Western culture sensitive to taste and do what is called Wai, just like namaste.
The apparent point here is that the Namaste did not diminish India’s Covid-19 cases.Is there a genetic reason? Thai doctors are reading this question, but they are not close to an answer.
Across Asia, Covid-19 death figures have been lower than in Europe and the United States, and the credible explanation for which doctors offer is that Asians are attacked through all kinds of infectious diseases.like dengue, which may have left us all with greater immune responses to Covid-19.
There may be an explanation for India’s emerging numbers: it was the migration crisis that led others to travel many miles, some in crowded trucks and other situations where social estrangement was not possible, but in Bangladesh many also returned to their villages after wasting their work in urban areas.
How long does India? One prediction is that we will become the global access point for Covid-19: the United States with 5.41 million instances and 171,000 deaths are still well ahead, but we have just passed the 50,000 mark per day and that deserves to be sounding the alarm.Everywhere.
Is there any good news in this gloom? A survey conducted between July 20 and August 5 in five subbarriums or prabhags in Pune indicates an average prevalence of five to five, consistent with a percentage of serodiagnosis in those spaces.larger apartments or houses.
A study in Mumbai’s Dharavi district found that 57% of those with antibodies to infection.
This may simply imply that achieving “collective immunity”, when the virus is being eliminated because there are enough sensitive hosts, is closer than we think (the slogan is that it is still known whether the prevalence of antibodies confers immunity against a subsequent infection, doctors say.)
Alternatively, there is a theory of what virologists call “dark matter.”It simply means that many other people in a given country have incorporated immunity opposite Covid-19 or other diseases and are very likely to not contract them someday.
According to this theory, it would be possible to imagine that collective immunity can be achieved after between 20 and 25 percent of the population has been exposed to the disease.Look at it that way and collective immunity becomes a much less formidable goal.
Fortunately for us, we now live in the era of Big Data.This has allowed us to paint on a vaccine at a rate that would have been just ten years ago.Indian doctors are exchanging knowledge and data with their counterparts in places like Lombardy, Italy and New York, which have been savagely beaten by the pandemic.
Doctors say that with the wisdom they’ve acquired, they’re saving more lives than they were a few months ago, which can only be good news for those who will inevitably be affected by the virus.
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