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Coronavirus (Covid-19) in Other Countries (not Philippines or UK)

Discussion in 'News from the UK, Europe and the rest of the World' started by aposhark, Oct 19, 2020.

  1. Druk1
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    India is recording an average of 200,000 cases a day at the moment.
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    They still have a relatively low death rate, 125 per million compared to 141 per million for the Phils and 1866 per million for the UK.
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    Relatively low "Recorded", its India, spend long enough there you will see a few corpses in rivers or on the sides of roads, how many absolute poverty stricken low castes will just die unrecorded.
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    While Covid is awful, compared to the 1918 flu pandemic the world is doing really well so far, the surge in India is alarming like the similar surge in the Philippines, new variants, maybe we can only wait and see.
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  10. aposhark
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    Wait until the warmer weather really arrives in the summer, Jim; the masses will be drinking beer and alcohol like it's going out of style :eek:

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    If the UK vaccination programme continues as well as it has so far and if the surge testing for locating and suppressing variants works which so far it seems to be, then things could be pretty rosy in the UK and it won't matter that people won't wait and see.

    If you look back the warm weather in April and May 2020 did not suppress the UK epidemic all that much and I suspect that it isn't suppressing it in countries like India and the Philippines or even Brazil at the moment.

    And when the warm weather arrives and people are out drinking they will, simply as a result or the drink, relax their caution in the company of others, if we are lucky we won't get wide spreading of a variant like the South African one and the vaccines will be able to handle it, if we are unlucky then we will see another wave but it will be smaller in terms of deaths the Oxford AZ vaccine is actually still very effective at preventing hospitalisation and death resulting from the South African variant.
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    One thing gets me is that lots of "non-essential" stores have been open in the UK.
    It doesn't seem as though anyone is monitoring this and profits overrule everything - I thinks Canada will be the same.
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    India records 261,500 cases in last 24 hours, I wonder how many unrecorded :confused:
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    Two patients each bed Delhi
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  19. Druk1
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    Having spent quite a bit of time in Indian cities can't say I am surprised, the hospitals are even two'ing up the beds.
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