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THE NUMBER OF daily coronavirus infections in India has dipped below 100,000 for the first time in more than two months as an overall downturn prompted some states to ease restrictions.
The 86,498 cases added in the past 24 hours pushed India’s total past 29 million on Tuesday, second only to the United States, which has more than 33 million.
The Health Ministry also reported 2,123 new fatalities in the past 24 hours, raising the overall death toll to 351,309.
Both figures are believed to be vast undercounts.
India peaked at adding more than 400,000 cases a day in May, but new infections and deaths have declined across the country since then.
The downturn has led some states to ease restrictions on commercial activities to spur consumption.
Multiple states have, however, extended lockdowns and have been reluctant to reopen.
Meanwhile, the federal government is going to take over vaccine procurement from the states and ensure vaccines are provided free of cost to every adult Indian.
India’s vaccination drive has been marred by delays and shortages.
Less than 5% of the population is fully vaccinated.
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Hospital numbers have continued to fall and ICU numbers are below normal levels. Vaccines work, scare tactics by NPHET don’t.
just more fiction from the Modi government.
@Frank Jasper: there will be a lot of people in dublin this morning scrambling around looking for the next scariant
Wonder does the Indian journal पत्रिका have groups calling for various things to open or going after their Tony and questioning he numbers the opposite way to here.
@Scott Crossfield: definitely and claiming its all a hoax because they don’t know any victims personally
@Scott Crossfield: I very much doubt there are any Tonys in other countries. Most let their governments do the governing not public health officials with over inflated egos.
Is that because half the country is dead though
The off label use by clinicians of ivermectin looks to have paid off. We need both vaccines and theraputics as it will be another 12 months before the world has the jab.We need some trials of ivermectin now.
Ivor McEtin
Is having a modern metro a sign of a country in the developing world because they all seem to have them? Shouldn’t we start developing?
Open the pubs
100,00 per day sounds a lot. India’s population is massive.
Deaths per million population.
India: 254
Ireland: 990
have your say