India hits 20 million coronavirus cases as pressure mounts on Modi to declare national lockdown

[micromachine]

India’s total Covid-19 caseload soared past 20 million on Tuesday, official data showed as the pandemic continued to wreak havoc in the country’s hospitals.

In the past 24 hours, India added 357,229 cases, taking the total to 20.3 million, according to the health ministry. Deaths rose 3,449 to 222,408. Many experts suspect the true number is much higher.

Two weeks ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on states to only consider lockdowns “as the last option”. Now everyone from his political allies to top business leaders and US President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser see them as the only way to stem the world’s worst virus outbreak.

The debate has been complicated by Modi’s move last year to impose a nationwide lockdown without warning, spurring a humanitarian crisis as migrant workers fled on foot to rural areas.

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[Loofydralb]

You can't lockdown a jungle full of wild animals. It just doesn't work. Culling will.

 

[eatshitndie]

modi is doing the world a favor by culling own kind.

 

[Leongsam]

Lockdowns just make matters worse.

 

[redbull313]

Lockdowns just make matters worse.

Your mother giving birth to you made matters worse

 

[glockman]

Save us all, just nuke that fucking country please.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Wait for their Cow gods, rat gods, monkey gods, elephant gods, cobra gods to get covid they will go mad by then....

You can't lockdown a jungle full of wild animals. It just doesn't work. Culling will.

 

[capamerica]

Lockdowns just make matters worse.

Wrong. Again. Call it 0 for 166 tries.

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/herd-immunity-lockdowns-and-covid-19


Large scale physical distancing measures and movement restrictions, often referred to as ‘lockdowns’, can slow COVID‑19 transmission by limiting contact between people.

However, these measures can have a profound negative impact on individuals, communities, and societies by bringing social and economic life to a near stop. Such measures disproportionately affect disadvantaged groups, including people in poverty, migrants, internally displaced people and refugees, who most often live in overcrowded and under resourced settings, and depend on daily labour for subsistence.

WHO recognizes that at certain points, some countries have had no choice but to issue stay-at-home orders and other measures, to buy time.

Governments must make the most of the extra time granted by ‘lockdown’ measures by doing all they can to build their capacities to detect, isolate, test and care for all cases; trace and quarantine all contacts; engage, empower and enable populations to drive the societal response and more.

WHO is hopeful that countries will use targeted interventions where and when needed, based on the local situation.

 

[3_M]

National lockdown is the only way. No amount of vaccine can save the situations. Moreover 2 doses would take 1 month to realise it max efficacy. Vacinne the entire pop takes 1 year plus.

Virus strain would have time to adapt and mutate into another vacinne resistant strain.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

You can't lockdown a jungle full of wild animals. It just doesn't work. Culling will.

Covid........the gift that keeps giving...............Covid will save S'pore from CECA..............

 

[shockshiok]

Lockdowns just make matters worse.