India Just posted Record 314,835 daily cases, now Highest in World - Sam Leong is an Idiot

[Charlie99]

I don't think CECA covers flight schedule and frequency. It is pure greed on the govt.

Is Singapore dependent on Indian tourists?
Why are the Indians continue to travel to Singapore?
Is it to escape the spread of COVID in their home country?

 

[TuckFrump]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/25/asia/india-covid-fourth-day-record-infections-intl-hnk/index.html

India sets Covid-19 infection record for fourth straight day with hospitals desperate for oxygen
By Manveena Suri, CNN

Updated 7:30 AM ET, Sun April 25, 2021

Drone images of mass cremations as India battles Covid-19 02:00

(CNN)India reported 349,691 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, the fourth day in a row the country has set a world record for daily infections during the coronavirus pandemic, according to government and scientific tallies.

The country also reported its highest daily death toll for the ninth consecutive day, adding 2,767 fatalities in the past 24 hours.
The country of 1.3 billion people has logged over a million new cases in the past three days, bringing its pandemic totals up to 16.9 million recorded cases of the coronavirus, including 192,311 deaths.

The sky-rocketing Covid-19 infections are devastating India's communities and hospitals. Everything is in short supply -- intensive care unit beds, medicine, oxygen and ventilators. Bodies are piling up in morgues and crematoriums, and authorities have been forced to hold mass cremations at makeshift sites.

Just six weeks ago, India's Health Minister declared the country was "in the endgame" of the Covid-19 pandemic.

But Sunday's numbers, which represent the highest caseload recorded in a single day anywhere in the world, according to a CNN tally of figures from John Hopkins University, tell a different story.

Health workers wearing personal protective equipment carry bodies of people who were suffering from Covid-19 outside the Guru Teg Bahadur hospital, in New Delhi, India, on April 24.

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Germany and South Korea announced new travel restrictions for India starting Sunday amid growing international concern over the B.1.617 coronavirus variant first detected in the country, which includes a number of mutations. The Indian Health Ministry has said such mutations increase infectivity and aid in escaping immune response.

"In order not to jeopardize our vaccination campaign, travel to India must be significantly restricted," tweeted German Health Minister Jens Spahn. Starting Sunday night, only German citizens with a negative Covid-19 test will be allowed to enter the country from India and must quarantine immediately upon arrival for 14 days.
"Flights carrying South Korean citizens will be allowed but at a limited capacity," South Korea health official Son Young-rae said in a briefing.

Modi: 'This storm has shaken the nation'
India's second wave, which began in mid-March, comes as the country makes headway with its vaccination program. On Saturday, the health ministry said it had administered more than 140 million doses of vaccines against Covid-19 -- and 2.4 million of those were in the past 24 hours.

Despite administering the most number of coronavirus vaccines in the world after the United States and China, India ranks lower than many countries in per capita vaccination, according to CNN data.

The country on Monday announced that those aged 18 or older will be eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine starting May 1. Private vaccination providers will also be able to charge and provide vaccines.

In his monthly radio program, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday stressed the importance of getting vaccinated and referred to the second Covid-19 wave as a "storm" that had "shaken the nation."

"I'm speaking to you at a time when Covid-19 is testing our patience and capacity to bear pain. Many of our loved ones have left us in an untimely way. After successfully tackling the first wave, the nation's morale was high, it was confident. But this storm has shaken the nation," Modi said.

While state ministers and local authorities had been warning about the second wave and preparing action since February, there appears to have been a vacuum of leadership within the central government, with Modi staying largely silent on the situation until recent weeks.

A deserted view outside the shrine of Sufi Saint Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, as the shrine is closed for pilgrims, following the rise of Covid-19 cases across the country, in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 24 April.

On Saturday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent his support to the people of India.

"Our hearts go out to the Indian people in the midst of the horrific Covid-19 outbreak," Sec. Blinken tweeted. "We are working closely with our partners in the Indian government, and will rapidly deploy additional support to the people of India and India's health care heroes."

Pressure is mounting on the Biden administration to lift restrictions on exports of supplies that Indian vaccine manufactures say are required to ramp up production.
Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the Serum Institute of India, which manufactures Covishield, developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca, urged President Joe Biden to lift the embargo, which former President Donald Trump invoked at the start of the pandemic under the Defense Production Act. The restrictions have continued under Biden since February to boost domestic vaccine production.

"If we are to truly unite in beating this virus, on behalf of the vaccine industry outside the US, I humbly request you to lift the embargo of raw material exports out of the US so that vaccine production can ramp up. Your administration has the details," he tweeted.

Private companies in India step in to plug oxygen shortage
As Covid-19 cases surge and India continues to face severe oxygen shortages, private companies are stepping in to offer their support.
On Saturday, Sahil Barua, the co-founder and CEO of Indian courier company Delhivery, announced the company would work with its airline partners to import oxygen concentrators and other essentials.

"We're flying charters into India with oxygen concentrators and other essential supplies and can build more capacity on demand," Barua posted on LinkedIn.
Several industrial players are also redirecting oxygen production toward aiding the shortage.


As bodies pile up, India's leaders face rising public anger over second Covid-19 wave

The Steel Authority of India, along with private steel giant Jindal Steel and Power and the Tata Group, the country's biggest industrial group, have been supplying oxygen to affected states.

"Tankers refilled with liquid medical #oxygen and being dispatched from our oxygen plant. We shall overcome the #OxygenShortage," Naveen Jindal, chairman of Jindal Steel and Power, tweeted in one of several such posts.

"Medical oxygen is critical to the treatment of Covid-19 patients. Responding to the national urgency, we're supplying 200-300 tons of Liquid Medical Oxygen daily to various state governments and hospitals. We are in this fight together & will surely win it!" tweeted Tata Steel, a subsidiary of the group, on April 18.

The Tata Group also posted photos on Twitter of four cryogenic oxygen containers it imported from Singapore, which were flown in by the Indian Air Force on Saturday. It is importing 24 cryogenic containers to transport liquid oxygen and help ease the oxygen shortage in the country, according to a tweet on April 20.
On Thursday, India's Ministry of Home Affairs issued an order banning the supply of oxygen for industrial purposes.

CNN's Sugam Pokharel reported from Atlanta and Helen Regan wrote from Hong Kong. CNN's Yoonjung Seo and Inke Kappeler contributed to this report.

 

[TuckFrump]

 

[Leongsam]

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[Leongsam]

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Even if the death toll is 3x the official figure the deaths per million are so low that there is absolutely nothing to be concerned about.

If 600,000 have died so far it would mean that 99.96% of the population are doing just fine. Hardly a pandemic in anyone's books.

 

[Leongsam]

Sore loser, 350,000 cases a day and "its just a flu" LOL!

There is nothing to worry about because the number that are actually sick is very low.

India's deaths/million is less than 2 per day which is minuscule and nothing to worry about.

No amount of spin can change the raw data which is why not a single person has been able to provide any figures to prove my data wrong.

Even the mainstream media uses the same source of data.

 

[bobby]

Is Singapore dependent on Indian tourists?
Why are the Indians continue to travel to Singapore?
Is it to escape the spread of COVID in their home country?

Not just tourists...fucking Ah Nehs working here will bring their infected parents & family from India here on the CECA path.

The Singapore permanent resident (PR), a senior executive at a shipping company, received the first dose of the vaccine on Feb 26 and the second on March 19.

His parents arrived from India on April 15.

His father tested positive for Covid-19 for his on-arrival swab and was admitted to a hospital.

His mother was placed on quarantine from April 16 to 30 at a government quarantine facility as she had been identified as a close contact of two other reported cases of the coronavirus on a flight.

She tested negative for Covid-19 on April 15 for her on-arrival test and again two days later during quarantine.

While their son, the 45-year-old man, had not travelled to India with his parents, he had requested to take care of his mother at the quarantine facility, and moved into the same room as her on April 16.

 

[capamerica]

There is nothing to worry about because the number that are actually sick is very low.

India's deaths/million is less than 2 per day which is minuscule and nothing to worry about.

No amount of spin can change the raw data which is why not a single person has been able to provide any figures to prove my data wrong.

Even the mainstream media uses the same source of data.

Wrong. Again. Call it 0 for 105 tries.

https://scroll.in/article/992600/in...s-and-deaths-by-not-including-suspected-cases

nterview: India is undercounting Covid-19 numbers and deaths by not including suspected cases
Public health specialist Dileep Mavalankar and infectious diseases consultant Sanket Mankad talk about the course of the pandemic's second wave in India.
Govindraj Ethiraj, IndiaSpend.com
Apr 19, 2021 · 07:30 pm

Amid second wave of Covid-19 in India, rapid increase in cases is a major challenge. | Punit Paranjpe / AFP
India is now seeing over 2,00,000 new Covid-19 cases a day and states across the country are witnessing record highs. In some states like Gujarat, which saw a new high of over 7,400 cases on April 15, there are reports of a mismatch between the government’s figures of Covid-19 deaths, particularly in big cities like Ahmedabad, Rajkot and Surat and other sources.
This seems to be happening in other states as well. What is happening in Gujarat? Is it simply that the number of deaths is not adding up vis-à-vis other parts of the country, or is Gujarat’s situation symptomatic of a larger reality that more Indians are succumbing to Covid-19 now compared to the first wave? And is this due to Covid-19 mutations and variants, or something else?
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What could be India’s way out of this second wave? What vaccination strategies should India pursue? We ask Dileep Mavalankar, director of the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar and Sanket Mankad, an infectious diseases consultant who sounded a warning back in November 2020 that we should focus on an imminent second wave, for the view from Ahmedabad.

Dileep Mavalankar, director of the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar (left) and infectious diseases consultant Sanket Mankad. Photo credit IIPHG/ IndiaSpend
Excerpts from the interview:
Dr Mavalankar, when we last spoke in August 2020, you had done a study looking at the prevalence of Covid-19 within families. One of your key findings was that the disease was not spreading as intensely within families as it was outside and in 70%-80% of cases, family members of Covid-19 persons were not affected. Was that because of the behaviour of the virus at that time? How have things changed in this second wave?
Dileep Mavalankar: The first major change we see in this second wave, at least anecdotally, is that entire families are affected, save maybe one person. We are planning to do a similar study again now, and have asked for government permission to access the data.
The second major change is the rapid increase in cases. The first wave started in March2020-April 2020 and peaked half a year later in September 2020, whereas this second wave has started in mid-February, has rapidly surpassed last year’s wave by a margin of two and has not yet peaked.
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The third major change is that more younger people are getting infected in this wave than in the first. Earlier it seemed there was low mortality in the second wave, but now it seems that mortality is catching up and is also rapidly increasing.
Fourth, again anecdotally, rural areas are also seeing quite a few cases, unlike in the first wave, despite there being less testing in rural areas compared to big cities.
Dr Mankad, tell us what changes you are seeing while treating patients at the front line.
Sanket Mankad: The major change we are observing currently as clinicians and infectious disease specialists is that the virulence of the virus is a bit higher compared to what we saw last April, May, October and November. As Dr Mavalankar rightly said, currently we find entire families to be positive.
Second, young adults are also being infected, who earlier were relatively safer. Third, the virulence of the virus in younger adults is also currently high and it is worrying that younger adults are developing pneumonia faster.

 

[glockman]

Here's what I've heard..

Apparently the covid virus has been spreading since 2020 but resources for testing and treatment were inadequate so the situation was left to fester. The Indian mainstream media was also muted by the bjp government to appease the population.

Then this year Modi offended US by not buying their missile defense system and US gave green light for indian media to lift the lid off the crisis just in time for Modi's election. Mass hysteria is making the situation worse.

This is interesting info.

 

[Peiweh]

World lumber one bring double mutated virus into Singapore close flight to India better

Sam Leong claims r idiotic

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56826645

Covid: India sees world's highest daily cases amid oxygen shortage
Published7 hours ago

India has recorded the highest one-day tally of new Covid-19 cases anywhere in the world - and the country's highest number of deaths over 24 hours.
It has close to 16 million confirmed cases, second only to the US.

The country is struggling with a second wave, raising more fears about its overwhelmed health care system.
Crowds have formed outside hospitals in major cities which are filled to capacity. A number of people have died while waiting for oxygen.

Families are waiting hours to perform funeral rites, Reuters news agency reports, with at least one Delhi crematorium resorting to building pyres in its car park in order to cope with the numbers arriving.

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Meanwhile, some countries are bringing in stricter rules affecting travel to and from India amid fears over the rising cases.

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the number of flights between the two countries would be cut, while the UK has added India to a red list, restricting travel and bringing in hotel quarantine for all arrivals from India from Friday morning.

What's happening in India's hospitals?
India is struggling to cope with the soaring numbers - it recorded some 314,835 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, while deaths rose by 2,104.
Oxygen supply has been a particular problem, with a number of hospitals in the capital Delhi running out entirely on Thursday, according to the city's Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia.

Numerous other hospitals are understood to be running dangerously low on supplies, including one treating another Indian politician, Saurabh Bharadwaj.

Delhi legislature member Mr Bharadwaj posted a plea for help in Hindi on Twitter from his hospital bed, saying there were just three hours of oxygen left.
"A lot of people are dependent on oxygen and without oxygen, these people will die just like fish die in the absence of water," he said, according to a translation by news channel NDTV. "This is a time for all to come together to work."

The crisis worked its way to Delhi's highest court on Wednesday, where judges publicly criticised the central government for its handling of the oxygen crisis in the city.
"This is ridiculous. We want to know what the centre is doing with regard to oxygen supply across India," the judges said while reading out the verdict in a petition by the owner of six private hospitals.

On Thursday, as hospitals warned stocks were rapidly diminishing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting to attempt to end the crisis. He asked officials to find ways to produce more oxygen, while telling states to come down "heavily" on anyone hoarding supplies.

A feeling of helplessness
By Vikas Pandey, BBC News, Delhi
My phone is constantly ringing with desperate friends and family asking for help to arrange beds and medicine. Some I am able to help, and some I can't.

I personally know of many cases where patients died because they couldn't get oxygen in time. It's heart-breaking for families to hear that the hospital where their loved ones are being treated may soon run out of oxygen.

Emergency intervention from the government has stopped any big disaster from happening so far, but there is an urgent need to give hospitals enough oxygen so they can sustain the increasing caseload.

But experts are asking why the government allowed the situation to become so dire. The pandemic was under control in January but the lean period was not used to augment healthcare facilities.

And now people are paying a heavy price for it, and we are left with a sense of helplessness all around.

How is India trying to contain cases?
Unlike last year, no national lockdown has been announced. Instead, regions are implementing their own rules.
Delhi announced a week-long lockdown at the weekend, leaving just government offices and essential services like hospitals, pharmacies and grocers open.
The authorities in the worst affected state of Maharashtra - which was already under a partial lockdown - have announced a series of additional restrictions starting from Thursday evening.

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Maharashtra is India's richest state and home to its financial hub, Mumbai. It has also been a Covid hotspot since the start of the pandemic, accounting for a quarter of India's cases.

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image captionMaharashtra accounts for a quarter of India's more than 15 million Covid cases

Maharashtra has also reported more deaths from the virus than any other state, with 67,468. India has suffered nearly 185,000 deaths with Covid, according to Johns Hopkins University. However, while deaths have been rising, the fatality rate remains relatively low.

Uttar Pradesh, which is also reporting a high caseload, has adopted a more conservative approach, with its high court on Monday ordering a lockdown in five badly affected districts. However, it was put on hold after the government appealed against the decision in the Supreme Court.

How is India's vaccination drive going?
India - which has a population of more than a billion people - has so far administered more than 130 million doses but the drive has been restricted to health workers, frontline staff, those above the age of 45 and anyone with co-morbidities.

From 1 May, people above 18 will also be eligible for the vaccine. But a supply crunch, which is already affecting the drive, could slow it down further.
The crunch has impacted the Covax programme, which was heavily dependent in India's Serum Institute. It told the BBC it had suffered a shortfall of around 90 million doses after India prioritised its own needs, but says talks are now taking place to resume production.

• The scheme to share vaccines with other countries

Pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced it was in ongoing discussions with the Indian government to supply its Covid-19 vaccine to the country at a not-for-profit price, according to Reuters news agency.

What caused the latest wave?
India has seen a rapid rise in case numbers over the past month driven by lax safety protocols, a Hindu festival attended by millions and variants of the virus, including a "double mutant" strain. It was detected in 61% of samples tested in Maharashtra, according to the National Institute of Virology.

Huge election rallies - including by Prime Minister Narendra Modi - were also not halted in the state of West Bengal which has been holding elections in phases in recent weeks. The government has defended the decision to continue with the polling.

WOW. I have no words. Like when I see how many PRCs are still coming here and people think the Indians are the real problem.

 

[syed putra]

I dunno what is wrong with people here.
On one hand they want ceca's to die and when they are dying, now says it should not happen.

 

[Pinkieslut]

 

[tiongsrshit]

tiongs say they never release virus and their cases is 0. u believe?

 

[bart12]

All his numbers are also behind the curve and reality

Just ask ADMIN, his track record is very good LOL!

ADMIN WALL of SHAME LOL!

"Its Just a Flu" (Killer Pandemic)
"Only Fat People Die" (Diverse People Affected)
"Masks Dont Work" (We all wear masks)
"Vaccines Dont Work" (Hundreds of millions vaccinated, Israel reopened)
"Sweden Herd Immunity" (Sweden Worst in Scandanavia)
"India is doing well" (Now Worst in World, 1 Million Projected dead by August)
"Donald Trump" (Worst President In 232 of US History

 

[Leongsam]

All his numbers are also behind the curve and reality

They aren't my numbers they are taken from websites used by news outlets around the world. The only difference is that I just present the data for others to scrutinise whereas the media tries to spin a false narrative.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Mother Nature doing it’s own form of population control

 

[redbull313]

They aren't my numbers they are taken from websites used by news outlets around the world. The only difference is that I just present the data for others to scrutinise whereas the media tries to spin a false narrative.

How about u go fuck yourself? Indians only come here now shit for brains

 

[capamerica]

They aren't my numbers they are taken from websites used by news outlets around the world. The only difference is that I just present the data for others to scrutinise whereas the media tries to spin a false narrative.

All I have to do is go to your useless website and adjust the parameters to suit whatever I want it to say. Your failures are truly something else.

 

[TuckFrump]