Over 90,000 newly added in a single day!
Daily increase of over 50,000 for 40 consecutive days!
More than 1,000 deaths in a single day for 5 consecutive days!
While most countries in the world have successfully escaped the peak of the epidemic, India is setting new epidemic records.
On September 7, local time, India’s new crown cases exceeded 4.2 million, surpassing Brazil and becoming the country with the second most confirmed cases in the world.
Data map: On May 27, local time, a photo studio in India developed a new work area during the epidemic to help customers make exclusive masks.
The epidemic in India seems to be out of control. Some experts believe that in the next six weeks, this South Asian country will surpass the United States, which has more than 6.2 million confirmed diagnoses, and rise to the world's first place in the new crown epidemic list.
However, when the epidemic hit, India was still facing multiple blows such as the continuous shortage of medical resources and the rising unemployment rate. At present, “have not seen the light at the end of the tunnel”.
4.2 million diagnosed! Second in the world!
India is deeply mired in the epidemic. What is the culprit?
The Ministry of Health of India announced on the 7th that there were 90,802 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the country, with a total of more than 4.2 million confirmed cases, reaching 4,204,613.
With a surge of more than 90,000 newly diagnosed cases for two consecutive days, India surpassed Brazil on the 7th and became the country with the second most confirmed cases of new crowns in the world, second only to the United States.
This is the 40th consecutive day that India has increased the number of confirmed cases by more than 50,000.
Data map: On June 15, local time, New Delhi, India, the banquet hall was transformed into a temporary hospital.
As early as August 29, the number of new cases in a single day in India exceeded the highest records in the United States and Brazil for the first time.
In the following time, the number of new cases in a single day in the country has repeatedly reached new highs.
When the epidemic slows down in most countries and gradually restarts the economy, why is India sinking deeper and deeper into the quagmire of the epidemic, out of control?
Indian experts believe that the premature reopening of the seal and the people's failure to strictly observe the epidemic prevention measures have objectively caused the accelerated spread of the epidemic.
As early as the beginning of the epidemic, the Indian government adopted stricter “blockade” measures in April and May, which delayed the deterioration of the epidemic to a certain extent.
However, due to economic pressure, since India lifted the "blockade" measures in early June, the domestic epidemic has begun to develop rapidly.
Even if the epidemic does not show signs of improvement, in order to restore the economy, India still implemented the fourth phase of unblocking measures in September according to the original plan.
Data map: The swimming pool of a luxury resort in Kumarakom, India was transformed into a fish farm.
Affected by the epidemic, the former lively resorts have become deserted.
On the day when India’s confirmed cases became the world’s second largest, the country’s subway was allowed to operate for the first time after months of closure.
From September 21st, India will also allow sports, entertainment, cultural and religious gatherings with a scale of less than 100 people to resume outside the hot spots.
On the other hand, the new crown virus pandemic has made life more difficult for low-income people in India, and it is also difficult for these people to cooperate with various epidemic prevention measures.
The team led by doctor Sunil Minj recently tested nearly 400 people every day in Delhi's slums, markets and construction sites.
He said: "With (the relaxation of the lockdown), the workers came back and they accidentally carried the new crown virus." But many people lost their livelihoods for fear of being quarantined for 14 days and were reluctant to be tested.
It only took 13 days to add 1 million cases
India confirmed cases within 6 weeks or overtake the United States
The number of newly confirmed cases in a single day in India has remained the world's first in the past month.
The number of confirmed cases in the country exceeded 3 million on August 23 and it took only 13 days to exceed 4 million on September 5, which was shortened again from the 16 days used for the last 1 million cases. The spread of the epidemic continues to accelerate.
Data map: On July 21, 2020, local time, in Mumbai, India, a health volunteer from an NGO wearing protective clothing and a smart helmet equipped with a thermal scanning sensor checks the body temperature of residents from house to house in a residential area.
In an interview with Indian media at the end of August, Agowal, the former head of the Indian Medical Association, said that if the current trend continues, India will surpass the United States within six weeks and become the country with the worst epidemic situation in the world.
In Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, a surge in cases has led to a shortage of hospital beds and other health infrastructure.
The nurse Prakash was recently diagnosed with the new crown virus.
But the hospital ward where she works has no beds.
She had to wait more than 24 hours before being assigned to a hospital bed; when reporter Dolby felt unwell, his friends called for an ambulance.
When Dolby was taken to the hospital two hours later, he had passed away.
More than 1,000 new deaths in 5 consecutive days
Spreading from cities to rural areas, will the epidemic get out of control?
It is also worth noting that India has had more than 1,000 new deaths in a single day for five consecutive days.
Since the epidemic, more than 70,000 Indians have died from the new crown.
These patients who have been killed by the new crown virus include both political officials and ordinary people.
Behind every lost life, there is a sad story.
Data map: On July 23, local time, in India-controlled Kashmir Srinagar, a local Urdu newspaper "Roshni", in order to raise people’s awareness of new coronary pneumonia, provided readers with free masks and posted them on their heads Version.
More than two months ago, 52-year-old Bavalar Sujani swallowed his last breath in front of a hospital in Bangalore.
After he fell ill, he was turned away by many hospitals, and his experience in medical treatment was very bumpy.
Bavalar’s youngest son Vikram revealed that their family “visited 18 hospitals, called 32 hospitals, and traveled about 120 kilometers back and forth in the city.”
The patient's experience in the city is sympathetic, but in the vast rural areas, the epidemic is raging with greater destructive power.
According to the analysis, since July, the development of the epidemic in India has shown two characteristics: one is the acceleration of the total number of confirmed cases nationwide, and the other is the rapid spread of the epidemic in small and medium cities and rural areas.
Bloomberg believes that, as feared, the new crown virus is now likely to have moved from the urban areas of India to the vast and densely populated rural hinterland.
"India Express" published an article that the epidemic in India seems to have entered a terrible stage of out of control.
Scientists admit that for the current epidemic in India, even government intervention is unlikely to have any substantial impact on the speed of new cases.
They pointed out that one of the main reasons for finding more cases is that more samples were tested.
People may have been infected earlier, but have not been detected as they are now.
However, in the face of an epidemic that seems to be out of control, Indian people have also begun to experience "behavioral fatigue."
In Maharashtra, where the epidemic is the worst, doctors said that measures such as wearing masks and washing hands have been basically abandoned, but "the worst has not yet come."
Author: Dan Yi Kong Qingling