The epidemic in India is still raging, and the virus is spreading rapidly from major cities such as the capital New Delhi to remote rural areas. In the past few days, the epidemic data in India has remained high. The number of new cases in a single day has remained above 300,000 for several consecutive days, and the number of new deaths has also been around 4,000. However, in the opinion of many experts, these figures are still greatly underestimated, and the epidemic in India is far worse than people think.
Comprehensive Observer.com and other reports, data released by the Indian Ministry of Health on May 11 showed that in the past 24 hours, there were more than 329,000 new confirmed cases of new crown in India, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeded 22.99 million; 3,876 new deaths were reported. , the cumulative number of deaths is close to 250,000. At the same time, some experts pointed out that the actual epidemic data in India may be much higher than the officially reported figures.
On May 9, local time, Ashish K. Jha, an Indian-American public health expert and former director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, questioned the death toll of the new crown announced by the Indian government on Twitter. He said that the number of deaths can be easily estimated from the operation of crematorium in India. Before the outbreak of the epidemic, Indian crematoriums could handle about 27,000 dead bodies every day. If only 4,000 new crown deaths were added every day, crematoriums would not be on the verge of collapse. Ijha speculates that at least 25,000 people are now dying from Covid-19 in India every day instead of 4,000.
Vipin Narang, an Indian-American professor at MIT , retweeted this tweet, supporting Jha's speculation. He was saddened by the epidemic in India, and said, "This is an unprecedented failure of governance." In fact, many health experts and media believe that India's epidemic figures are only the "tip of the iceberg", and as the situation intensifies, India's The number of confirmed cases and deaths will also increase significantly.Recently, the model prediction results of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in the United States show that by August this year, the death toll of the new crown in India may be as high as 1 million. This means that more than 700,000 people may die in India in the next 3+ months, which is absolutely a terrible disaster.
The Lancet, a British medical journal, pointed out that if such a tragedy occurs, the Modi government must be held responsible for the national disaster they have created. To this day, the Modi government still refuses to implement a nationwide blockade, even though three-quarters of the local states in India have already closed their cities on their own, which is only one step away from a national blockade. With the spillover of the epidemic in India, the risk of Asian countries has increased sharply, and there have been more and more criticisms of the Modi government at home and abroad. Even and western media are unceremoniously targeting Modi.
The British "Guardian", "The Lancet" and the American CNN and other Western media have criticized the Modi government for covering up the severity of the epidemic and trying to control the voices on social networks that criticize the government's anti-epidemic . Many media outlets have criticized Modi's government for being complacent and staging rallies despite the surge in cases. Today, CNN and other media have also questioned that the Modi government did not take nationwide blockade measures in time, the vaccine vaccination process was slow, and the distribution of anti-epidemic aid materials was chaotic and disorderly, resulting in people not being able to receive timely assistance.
The epidemic in India is endless, and the global epidemic will continue to face threats. Moreover, the intensification of the epidemic crisis in India is bound to have an impact on the global supply chain , and the world economy will also suffer as a result. The Modi government is gradually becoming a sinner in the world and . When the crisis is raging, it is time to adjust the epidemic prevention measures immediately to prevent India and the world from slipping into the abyss.
(edit: TSN)
