Thursday, July 30, 2020

The CoViD-19 Pandemic and Government Handling

The world is aface to the CoViD-19 pandemic since December 2019, but the situation deteriorated around March 2020. Particularly in India, the situation started heating by the end of March and a lockdown was imposed. That is history now, and after around four months, right from people at large to the enforcing authorities, all seem to have tired up, fed-up and used to the infection and its spread. No one is serious any more.
Meanwhile, a new trend has emerged in India. More people are found infected but
Stranger is that no tested person is being given any test report. I personally know a lady who was tested and informed on phone that all was OK, and the report was negative. Two days later and ambulance arrived her home to take her to hospital as
Seems like there is more than meets the eye.
But this approach by the authorities will lead to a more grave situation. As the word would spread, people will start thinking that Corona is nothing but hoax. Already negligent people will become more callous leading to a situation no government would be able to handle.
 As per data till GMT 2400 hrs on 29.04.2020, in the US one person was infected in every 72 person and one dead in every 2153. For Brazil it was in 83 and 2358 persons respectively. For India, these numbers were 872 and 39455 respectively. If my doubts are correct,this number includes the hoax patients also.
If the situation really goes the US way, we will be having a whopping 16639140 infected and 585686 dead persons. India is not prepared to handle this mammoth number.
People say, Delhi and Mumbai saw decline in numbers after they they permitted asymptomatic positives to stay home. I think, it no more remained lucrative to declare them infected!
Authorities, at least spare the moments of crisis, please.