COVID-19 deaths crowned 100,000 in India, government officials said Saturday, making it the third highest number of deaths in Brazil and the United States globally.
The Department of Health reported 1,069 new deaths by COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the total to 100,842, the New York Times reported.
As of Saturday, the countries with more than 100,000 reported deaths were the United States and Brazil.
India’s official workload is 6. 4 million, the time in the world, surpassed by the United States, which has more than 7. 3 million instances in total.
Anant Bhan, a fitness researcher at Yenepoya University in southern India, said the actual number of deaths is unknown and higher.
“But it’s hard to know how high it is,” Bhan said, because experts haven’t reported many DEATHS from COVID-19 in India.
Although numbers have declined since mid-September, last month accounted for about 40% of virus cases in India and accounted for about one-third of their deaths.
This week, India reported nearly twice as many new cases as the United States.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed one of the toughest closures in March, which has been described by experts as ill-planned and devastating to the economy, while not preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Despite a growing number in India, the government is lifting security restrictions in the event of a pandemic, for example by allowing cinemas and some schools to reopen.
Bhan said the prospect of young people going to school and returning the virus to their families and homes would increase the chance of exposure and increase infection rates.
Thekkekara Jacob John, former chief of clinical virology at Christian Medical College in southern Tamil Nadu state, said many lives could have been stored if the lockdown had been treated differently.
India had virtually no virus cases during the close of March, as the peak of infections in the country did not accumulate in the country until after May, according to Johns Hopkins University.
“Today, economic recovery takes precedence over virus management,” John.
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