The Times of India published an article written by Saroj Chadha, a columnist who served in the Indian army and participated in the 1971 India-Pakistan War, on the 10th, in which he suspected that India's second wave of the new crown epidemic was "carefully designed".
India is going through a very difficult time in its fight against the coronavirus. The recent sharp rise in confirmed cases in the second wave of the outbreak has put India at the top of the list of new daily cases over the United States and Brazil. Before India overtook the United States, the United States and Brazil had long been in these two positions. In terms of cumulative diagnoses, India is currently second only to the United States and Brazil is third.
The second wave of the epidemic in India is serious
The article cites data from several months, pointing out that by December 31, 2020, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States was 20.1 million, in Brazil it was 7.6 million, and in India it was 10.3 million. By March 10 of this year, the United States had increased by another 45 percent to 29.3 million, Brazil's figure had increased by 47 percent to 11.2 million, and India's cases had only increased by about 12 percent to 11.6 million. The story after this is "surprising": in the next two months, as of around May 9, the number of cases increased by only 11% to 32.7 million in the United States, 36% in Brazil to 15.2 million, but India by 93% to 22.3 million. This is also the time when India is being swept up by new "double mutation" virus variants, but the authors believe that there is more to it.
Indians tested on the streets
This new variant in the second wave of the outbreak was "attacked against the Indian nation" in Maharashtra, or rather, earliest in Mumbai, the country's financial capital, the authors write. Previously, as of the last day of 2020, the state had only 1,754 confirmed cases. But by March 10, that number had risen to 13,659, and by April 6, 102,754 cases had been reported, an increase of nearly 750 percent in less than a month. The authors argue that this peak is illogical. He questioned whether the state and municipal authorities in Mumbai had taken other measures to trigger this sudden increase. Over the past few months, the existing restrictions have been gradually relaxed. Nor has there been any drastic action at the national level that has led to an increase in the number of cases. Suddenly, the outbreak suddenly worsened with the emergence of a new "double mutant" variant of the virus, which spread faster than any of the earlier strains of the new coronavirus.
The surge in the death toll in India has overwhelmed the crematorium for a time
The author goes on to write that the next stop for this variant is Delhi, the capital of India. As of 31 December 2020, there were only 287 confirmed cases in Delhi. On March 10, 2021, it was 370, and then on April 20, that number jumped to 28,395, a 7674% surge in about 40 days. After Delhi, it's the turn of The City of Bangalore, the "soft power capital" of Karnataka and India. At the end of last year, there were only 476 cases in the state. That number rose to 760 on March 10 and to 50,112 on May 5, 2021, a staggering increase of 6594% in just two months. The authors argue that this new "double mutation" variant appears very "special and picky" in the position of the attack, otherwise, it is impossible to explain its jump from Mumbai to Delhi, then Bangalore, bypassing many other states and cities. The authors argue that this suggests that this new strain of the virus has taken the route of attacking India's financial capital first, then the political capital, followed by the "soft power capital."
The authors also claim that the new strain "knowingly" did not hit parts of india's neighbors in the Indian subcontinent, such as Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, as did other countries in the southeast and middle east. The United States and Brazil are the top two countries in terms of daily case count for months on a row, but no worth mentioning variants of the virus have been reported. China, where the coronavirus was first detected, has not reported a variant in nearly a year and a half. But India, which seems to have effectively controlled the virus by the end of 2020, suddenly discovered a new "double mutation" strain, which is more lethal and spreads faster.
The authors also acknowledge that, theoretically, the more a virus spreads, the greater the probability of natural mutations. Unless the strain changes, most mutants don't pose any new challenges. Variants found in the UK, Japan, South Africa and Brazil fall into the latter category because, despite the changes, they have not caused such damage to the new "double mutation" variants in India in just a few weeks.
On the other hand, the authors argue that India has previously effectively contained the spread of the virus and reported fewer than 15,000 new cases per day across the country in January and February. For Mumbai and Delhi, the figure is lower than 300 cases per day. However, a deadly "double mutation" appears, and the author asks "Isn't that strange?" ”。
THE AUTHORS WRITE THAT WHO HAS DEVELOPED GUIDELINES TO FOLLOW WHEN NAMING NEW VIRUSES OR DISEASES AFFECTING HUMANS, WITH A FOCUS ON ENSURING THAT ITS GENERIC NAMES DO NOT CARRY ANY DESCRIPTION OF THE REGION, PLACE, RACE, PERSONAL NAME, ANIMAL SPECIES, OR ANY OTHER LABEL THAT COULD DEPRECIATE ANY REGION OR POPULATION OR EVEN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY. However, in the case of the emergence of a double mutant in India, most countries and media in the world have referred to it as the "Indian double mutant". Sadly, the Indian media has been using the term instead of using its generic name. The author believes that this cannot but be said to be a deliberate trick to destroy the country in collusion inside and outside.
The author then begins by enumerating India's "glorious achievements." India, for example, has become even more powerful in the midst of a virus attack that broke out in March last year. India's recovery and efficiency in responding to the pandemic are "astonishing", with almost the lowest mortality rate even compared to the more developed, wealthier European countries and the United States, while its recovery rate is the highest. On the economic front, India's stocks are rising rapidly, and the Indian vaccine industry is also poised to become a major vaccine supplier in the fight against the virus. India's pharmaceutical industry is not lagging behind in its efforts to become the world's pharmaceutical supplier, and the defense industry is also making great strides forward. In short, he believes the story about India's growth and credibility is ready to "break through."
The author concludes the article arguing that india's "achievements" mentioned above may have aroused the jealousy of "internal and external enemies" and made India a victim of a conspiracy to undermine its development and fight against the epidemic, and perhaps have vested interests to help internally, thus trying to deliberately undermine India's recovery and the growth it has brought. The authors also point out rather conspiracy theories that viral mutants cannot arbitrarily choose the target of destruction, so it may be assisted by "foreign hands". He even argues that whether the variant spread in India is "part of a larger sinister conspiracy" is unclear.
According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Health of India on May 11, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country rose to 22992517. In the past 24 hours, there have been 329942 new confirmed cases and 3,876 new deaths, with a cumulative 249992 deaths.
(Editor: YZS)