India’s virus caseload tops 3 million as disease moves south
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India’s coronavirus caseload topped three million on Sunday, with the country leading the world in new infections as the disease marched through impoverished rural areas in the north and the wealthier but older populations of the south.
Health authorities reported 69,239 new cases and 912 deaths, bringing the total to 3,044,940.
Read: Modi says India set to mass produce Covid-19 vaccine when scientists give go-ahead
Cases have levelled off in India’s two largest cities, with serological surveys showing widespread prevalence among the residents of the capital, New Delhi, and financial centre Mumbai.
New hot spots continue to feed surges in cases in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states in India’s north, and in the southern states of Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
India has the third-highest caseload after the United States and Brazil, and its 56,706 fatalities are the fourth-highest in the world.
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Aug 23, 2020 01:30pm
Prevention is better than cure. India set a target of 1 million testing per day.
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Aug 23, 2020 01:51pm
Well done Modi!
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Aug 23, 2020 02:00pm
Lockdown of Kashmiris resulted in lockdown of whole world.
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Aug 23, 2020 02:02pm
One day India will come out from the Pandemic,it is like a common flue now.
I have tested positive and is under home isolation for last 15 Days.Majority people prefers home isolation since most getting affect by mild or no symptoms.
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Aug 23, 2020 02:15pm
@Dr Vikas Jamwal , just test but don't cure or take precautions.
This incredible India, making world records
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Aug 23, 2020 02:23pm
Atleast India is doing tests.
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Aug 23, 2020 02:24pm
No effective cure, No effective vaccine so far. So, To laugh or to cry? I do not know. Potential mortality numbers? 10% of the population? Morbidity may reach 50-75% perhaps?
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Aug 23, 2020 02:53pm
Pakistan done 23 lakh tests since March, India doing 10 lakh tests per day
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Aug 23, 2020 02:58pm
This virus will go nowhere till you get the potion from the creator. Any surprise that highest cases are being registered in India and USA?
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Aug 23, 2020 03:36pm
@Hari,
You guys have amazing knack of deflecting and converting not so good news into something good!
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Aug 23, 2020 03:40pm
@Ahmed khan lehri ,
You need iq test. Take it soon.
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Aug 23, 2020 03:46pm
Case load means ACTIVE CASES. The case load is much smaller since 72% patients have been already cured.
What you mean is confirmed cases means anyone who ever tested positive for COVID NOT those who are positive at this time.
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Aug 23, 2020 03:48pm
@Ahmed khan lehri , what are your precautions like, pray tell us!
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Aug 23, 2020 03:48pm
@Ahmed khan lehri , please check your testing figure
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Aug 23, 2020 03:55pm
And your policy is no test no corona
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Aug 23, 2020 04:00pm
Modi is clueless.
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Aug 23, 2020 04:00pm
The only solution is to have an educated man as India's PM.
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Aug 23, 2020 04:02pm
Wish we had a thoughtful PM like Pakistan does.
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Aug 23, 2020 04:44pm
@Hari, Assuming 30 days in a month and 1 million test per day India would have tested north of 170 million since March. They are not even close to that.
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Aug 23, 2020 05:21pm
India should learn from Pakistan. The uno and Bill Gates acknowledged Pakistan's strategy.
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Aug 23, 2020 05:42pm
One must have courage to accept the fact
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Aug 23, 2020 05:46pm
India has saved its population, a world class effort, there will be many left over out of 1.4bn, who would have missed Corona CV19.
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Aug 23, 2020 06:14pm
The pandemic is global so it has to be a "One for all, All for one" attitude to eliminate this scourge.
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Aug 23, 2020 09:13pm
@A shah, how many tests Pakistan did?
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Aug 23, 2020 10:20pm
@Dr Vikas Jamwal , testing only tells you how many are affected , how do you prevent the spread of pandemic where social distance in slums is next to impossible.
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Aug 24, 2020 02:16am
India has potential of over 100 million cases and over 1 million deaths if current trend would continue...
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Aug 24, 2020 03:09am
Another milestone. Great job Modi.
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Aug 24, 2020 04:03am
This Chinese virus has caused havoc in the world. China needs to be punished west and USA are working on it how to punish the culprits economically and starve them from stealing west technology.
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Aug 24, 2020 11:52am
Pakistan's world class strategy of conducting minimal tests should be followed.
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