India crossed the million mark of Covid-19 cases this Friday. Third nation in the world in number of contaminations listed, after the United States and Brazil, the Asian giant counted Friday 25,602 dead for 1,003,832 cases confirmed since the start of the pandemic, according to official figures published in the morning by the ministry of Health. The second most populous nation on the planet has recorded nearly 35,000 cases and 700 additional deaths attributed to the virus in the past 24 hours, according to the official report.
The number of Covid-19 deaths in India remains relatively low compared to the most affected countries, with 18 deaths per million inhabitants compared to 417 in the United States, the nation most bereaved by the pandemic, according to calculations by AFP from official data.
Danger for South Asia
At the initiative of regional governments, changes and health restrictions to fight the disease are increasing in recent weeks across the country of 1.3 billion inhabitants. The 125 million inhabitants of the poor state of Bihar (north) reconfigured themselves at midnight Thursday, a day after the 13 million inhabitants of the agglomeration of Bangalore (south) did the same.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government imposed brutal containment in late March, which it lifted in early June, despite the spike in the number of cases, in an attempt to revive an economy on its knees. Many restrictions remain in place, however.
South Asia is on its way to becoming the next epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, worried this week the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). "While the world's attention is turned to the ongoing crisis in the United States and South America, a similar human tragedy is rapidly emerging in South Asia," said John Fleming, a regional official for the media, in a statement. 'IFRC.
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