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Only the United States and Brazil reported more coronavirus deaths. Despite its emerging numbers, India plans to implement more restrictions.
By Sameer Yasir
SRINAGAR, Kashmir – More than 100,000 more people in India have died from the coronavirus, the government said Saturday, even as officials plan to lift more restrictions in hopes of reviving the paralyzed economy.
India’s Ministry of Health has reported 1,069 new Covid-19-like deaths, bringing the official total to 100,842, experts say the true figure is likely much higher. As of Saturday, only the United States and Brazil had reported more than 100,000 deaths from the virus.
At 6. 4 million, India’s official workload is the highest in the world, second only to the United States, which has more than 7. 3 million cases. Death and infection rates in the India have risen in recent months, and September accounts for more than 40%. of their instances and about a third of their deaths.
The numbers have declined since mid-September, but remain high. Over the next week, India has reported nearly twice as many new cases as the United States. And experts suspect that many Covid-19-related deaths in India have not been reported. .
“The actual number of deaths is much higher,” said Dr. Anant Bhan, a fitness researcher at Yenepoya University in southern India. “But it’s hard to know how tall it is.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government imposed a serious national blockade in March, a resolution that many experts say is poorly planned, devastates the economy and does not prevent the spread of the virus.
Today, despite emerging figures, officials are lifting restrictions in hopes of alleviating economic suffering. Cinemas will be allowed to reopen with limited capacity this month, for example, and some states are expected to reopen schools.
Dr. Bhan said reopening could endanger older Indians and other vulnerable people who remain at home. Children returning to school are likely to bring the virus home, he said. “The chance of exposure to infection would increase. “
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 March lockdown had been treated appropriately.
“Today, economic recovery takes precedence over controlling the virus,” John said.
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