Recently, the epidemic situation in India has continued to deteriorate, and the new confirmed cases have continued to set new records, and the growth rate is even beyond the reach of the United States. On the current trajectory, India will overtake Brazil in about a week and the United States in about two months to become the country with the largest number of confirmed cases. This is the most worrying thing for the outside world, India's poor sanitary conditions have always made the outside world uneasy, and now it has come true, after Europe and the United States have become the "epicenter" one after another, India has unsurprisingly taken over the baton.
The epidemic in India has always been distinctive, and after the first confirmed case was reported on January 30 this year, more than 7 months later, the number of infections in India is still accelerating. And recently it has entered a new phase – the coronavirus has begun to penetrate into the rural hinterland after it spread in India's densely populated major cities. Disturbingly, India, a country of 1.3 billion people, lives mostly in rural areas.
The epidemic prevention conditions in rural areas are already very bad, and the population is very concentrated, and the trend of worsening the epidemic is bound to intensify. This is where the horror lies, now the most serious epidemic situation in the United States and Brazil, the epidemic development curve is a wavy line, while India has been a straight line, this line seems to only rise and not fall.
As for when to rise to the top, even India itself did not fully understand. Still, India's mentality is very good, and Naman Shah, a part-time employee of India's National Institute of Epidemiology, said that as the world's second most populous country and a country with a relatively poor public health system, India will inevitably become the world's largest outbreak site.
Shah, a member of India's COVID-19 task force, is pessimistic about the outbreak in India, but he himself can see it, with Shah stressing: "These are all expected things, and India can't change it no matter what it does." "When India just broke out of the epidemic, it was still boasting that India had done a good job in prevention and control, and now it can't be controlled and said that it is expected."
There are many Indian officials with similar mentalities, all of whom look down on life and death, said Jugar Kishore, head of the community medicine department at Safdar Chung Hospital: "The number of cases reported every day is increasing, but this is not alarming. "Why don't you panic? Kishore took out the serum antibody test data.
According to India's latest antibody testing data, the proportion of Indians with antibodies in the body is not low, such as the Delhi region, nearly 30% of people have antibodies. As the number of confirmed cases continues to increase, more and more people will have antibodies, so don't panic, most people will have antibodies.
It looks very dashing, but in fact, only India itself knows how bitter it is, India is now equivalent to letting 1.3 billion people implement herd immunity, basically letting it go, letting the epidemic develop, with almost no countermeasures, but constantly opening up the economy and transportation.
As a result, Indian officials can only accept reality and even say things that are "expected". A few days ago, Modi continued to brag about India's anti-epidemic achievements, and now he is not stingy, not knowing what kind of rhetoric Modi will find out after India becomes the epicenter of the epidemic.