This is the cause of corona virus cases in India soaring sharply

KOMPAS.com – India has added about 300,000 infections corona virus new in the last four days.

If confirmed cases continue to grow, India may surpass the United States, as the country worst-hit by the coronavirus worldwide.

Launch Worldometers, Saturday (12/9/2020) at 11.15 WIB, India reported 4,659,984 cases of Covid-19 in the country, with 958,282 deaths.

On Monday (7/9/2020), India overtook Brazil as the country with the second highest number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 globally.

The cause of cases in India increased significantly

Launch Al Jazeera, India’s Health Ministry said the jump in cases was due to the increase in daily testing cases which has now reached more than one million.

Despite the spike in new cases and the number of deaths that have occurred, India continues to loosen restrictions and open up its economic sector to cover losses incurred during the period. lockdown long.

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The lockdown took place in March. The policy forced hundreds of thousands of workers to leave the city and stay in their homes.

Experts suspect that the return of workers to their homes is contributing to the spread of the virus in rural areas.

In addition, the Indian government is said to have not succeeded in delivering an effective message about the importance of wearing masks, maintaining distance and other measures that can help suppress the spread of the virus.

As the virus has spread in rural areas, India’s rural health sector is not equipped to handle the spike in cases in the world’s second most populous country.

Poor health infrastructure

Even patients in cities have to suffer from poor hospital facilities and protocols.

One of them is Mohinder Kaur, a positive Covid-19 patient who is being treated at a government-run hospital in New Delhi.

“Nobody approaches us or even helps us. If anyone accidentally touches us, the staff will scream at them for damaging PPE (personal protective equipment) equipment,” he said as quoted from the statement. Al Jazeera.

Kaur added that in the current hot weather, the fan was not functioning and the officers did not make repairs even though there had been several complaints.

“The toilets are dirty and sometimes there is no water. In the ward there are rats, lizards, cats and even dogs roaming around,” he said.

The Indian capital still has better health facilities compared to rural areas, where only 20 percent of Indian doctors and 40 percent of hospitals are located.

Health experts feel this could endanger millions of lives.

“The Indian epidemic consists of two parts, urban followed by rural. Each consists of countless outbreaks, each district or city / city with its own outbreak,” said Vellore, an epidemiologist and former professor at Christian Medical College, Dr. T Jacob John.

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John conveyed, in the last week of August, the epidemic reached all corners, as evidenced by the transmission of the virus among tribal communities.

“This means that spatially the epidemic has peaked,” he said.

The fourth stage of the pandemic

John said, India has entered the fourth stage of the pandemic, which means the country is experiencing widespread transmission.

This condition can be seen from the record of the daily number of infections in the last few weeks.

But so far the Indian government has firmly denied community transmission, which has so far been unknown.

John said, India experienced community transmission (stage three) between March-July. According to him, the authorities must move from the idea of ​​control to mitigation.

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