New Delhi: India, on Monday has
registered 54,265 new coronavirus cases in the country and more than 700 people
have lost their lives due to the pandemic. India has a total of 7,175,880
infections, and 109,884 people have passed due to the virus. Since the pandemic
broke out in March, India had seen a low number of infections and deaths in the
first few months. The Central Government in June had begun unlocking the
country from the imposed lockdown in several phases. But, the tally of people
who were infected with the coronavirus climbed to high rates. In mid-September,
the country had seen more than 90,000 people infected with the virus and
recorded deaths per day amounted to more than 1,000. October is seeing a slight
decrease in the number of cases and deaths. India has reported fewest cases and
deaths on Monday for the first time in 63 days. The Indian government is saying
that India had indeed passed the peak of the coronavirus but the other experts
and researchers are raising different concerns. The experts are saying that
India may yet would see a second wave of the coronavirus cases if the country
has indeed passed the first wave in the first place.
India holds a low death rate when
compared the United States and Brazil. In the United States, more than 200,000
people have lost their lives due to the virus and Brazil recently crossed
150,000 deaths. The low number of deaths in India are being attributed to
different reasons by the researchers and doctors. Some are saying that lockdown
during the summer is causing low death rate but some researchers are saying
that the number of deaths occurred due to the coronavirus in India were grossly
underreported. India has a weak death reporting system in place even before the
pandemic broke out and several coronavirus patients with chronic diseases like
heart diseases and blood pressure and diabetes have had been reported to be
died due their chronic illnesses rather than the virus. The figures report only
the patients who died in the hospitals and there is no way to report how many
deaths have had occurred in India at home.
