Business Insider: India just surpassed Russia as the country with the 3rd-most coronavirus infections
* India recorded tens of thousands of new COVID-19 cases over the weekend, raising the country's total number past Russia's as the third-largest in the world.
* The country has recorded nearly 700,000 cases despite strict lockdowns imposed from March to May.
* A lack of testing and external factors preventing social distancing among the population of 1.3 billion are thought to be to blame as some cities are preparing to impose lockdowns again.
India recorded just shy of 24,000 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, raising its total to 697,836, according to Worldometer data.
A similar surge was reported one day earlier, as 24,015 new cases were recorded Saturday, according to Worldometer data. The new data brought country's total case count ahead ahead of Russia's 681,251 and placed it third in the world behind the US and Brazil for total confirmed cases.
New Delhi, India's capital, leads the country in new COVID-19 cases, according to the BBC. Last week, the outlet reported that the capital city was the country's largest hot spot, with nearly 80,000 cases.
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In order to properly determine how truly infected a country is, one would need to look at more than raw infection counts. For example, in the US heavy investments have been made in both testing and contact tracing that far exceed other nations. As such, our numbers are going to be much higher than everyone else's will be.
ReplyDeleteAdding to this based upon a number of reports that have been confirmed by my contacts in the medical profession there has been and continues to be significant pressure to class both cases and deaths as COVID-19. What this means is that among those who seek medical attention both COVID-19 cases abd deaths due to COVID-19 are more likely than not to be significantly overstated. Additionally the contact tracers are identifying those who are asymptomatic or who have mild symptoms and otherwise would have gone unnoticed as they aren't going to seek medical help.
Essentially if the US tested abd contact traced like a normal country instead of the extreme levels it currently does our cases would drop significantly. Things like this need to be considered when determining just how hard hit a country really is.