India Crown Caseload Tops 4 Million

NEW DELHI – India’s number of cases has exceeded 4,000,000 crown on Saturday, deepening poverty in the vast hinterland of the country, where peaks have paralyzed the underfunded health system. First, the virus has devastated large and densely populated Indian cities. He has stretched to nearly every state to spread through villages and small towns. With a population of nearly 1.4 billion huge workload in India it is not surprising experts. The land of the delayed response to the virus has forced the government to implement a strict blockade late March. For more than two months, the economy has been imposed to gain time to prepare for the health of workers for the worse. But with the cost of restrictions also go up, the authorities saw no choice but to businesses and everyday activities to reopen. Most Indian cases are in the state of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana and four southern state of Maharashtra Western state. But new shocks arise elsewhere. The 86.432 cases in the last 24 hours added pushed India’s total of 4,023,179. Brazil has confirmed the infection 4,091,801, while the United States has had 6,200,186 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. Indian health ministry reported on Saturday also 1,089 deaths for a total of 69,561. It has increased as a test in India more than a million per day, an increasing dependence screening for antigens or viral proteins to create more problems. These tests are delivering results faster and cheaper, but are not as accurate. The danger is that the tests incorrectly can eliminate many of those who are infected with the virus. In Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state with a limited health care system, the situation is already grim. With a total of 253.175 cases and 3,762 deaths, the heart has been hard to an inevitable increase and the lack of beds in hospitals and other health facilities. Sujata Prakash, a nurse in the state capital, Lucknow, who tested positive for the newly crown. But the infirmary, where she worked denied admission laborious, because it was not an empty bed. He waited for more than 24 hours before the surgery department, patients sat on chairs before being assigned. “The CAN petals government hospitals on behalf of the shower crown warrior, but can not make a bed available if the same warrior need? The administration,” said Prakash husband, Vivek Kumar. Others were not so lucky. As a journalist Amrit Mohan Dubey sick last week, his friends called an ambulance to the town hall. And ‘it arrived two hours late and was taken to Dubey time in hospital, died. “He had reached the ambulance in time, we could have saved Amrit,” said Irshad Zafar, a fellow journalist. In rural Maharashtra, the state hardest hit with 863.062 cases and 25,964 deaths, doctors said measures such as masks and wash their hands had worn now largely abandoned. “There is a code of fatigue setting in now,” said Dr. S. P. Kalantri, the director of a hospital in the village of Sevagram. He said the past few weeks have been driven home the point that the virus had moved from Indian cities in the villages. “The worst is yet to come,” said Kalantri. “There is no light at the end of the tunnel.” ___ Associated Press writers Biswajeet Banerjee in Lucknow, India, contributed to this report.
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