Reuters: India coronavirus infections surge past 100,000, deaths top 3,000
(Reuters) - Coronavirus cases in India reached 100,000 on Tuesday, matching its number of intensive care beds, and the rate of increase of new infections showed little sign of slowing.
India reported 4,970 new cases over the previous 24 hours, taking its total to 101,139. Deaths rose by 134 to 3,163.
India’s number of cases has easily outstripped that of China, where the virus emerged late last year and which has been one of Asia’s infection hot spots.
China has reported nearly 83,000 cases but has kept its daily rise in new infections to single digits for the past week.
In contrast, new cases in India have risen by an average of more than 4,000 a day over the past week, according to a Reuters tally based on official data, despite a severe weeks-long lockdown.
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Update #1: COVID-19: India's coronavirus cases cross 100,000 (Gulf News/Bloomberg)
Update #2: India extends coronavirus lockdown by two weeks (BBC)
WNU Editor: There is very little (if any) testing in India for Covid-19. I would not be surprised if these numbers are significantly higher. Summer and warm weather have also returned to India. The hope is that this will help to hinder the spread of the virus.
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"Still, scientists have been able to piece together some viral histories, based on the fact that the genes of many viruses—such as those that cause herpes and mono—seem to share some properties with cells' own genes. This could suggest that they started as big bits of cellular DNA and then became independent"
www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-where-did-viruses-come-fr/
The implications of which is that you can never get rid of viruses. You could wipe them put for a time, but they would spring up de novo.
The straight forward trick is to eat right, sleep right, exercise right, and maintain the social conventions that work. Not something the Left wants to hear.
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