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The government may have wanted to change the political channel from gloomy pandemic news to hopefully sunshine Port City news. Instead, the government is stuck on a split screen with double-whammy news stories. On the left half, you can see a botched-up Port City Bill, heavily bandaged by the Supreme Court, limping through parliament with as many amendments as there are commas. On the right half, is the daily and depressing news of rising Covid-19 infections, mounting deaths, multiplying variants, shortage of hospital beds, long winding queues for short supplies of vaccine, and new restorations of old restrictions. In the background, you can see the burning silhouette of Modi’s India, a subcontinent of mass cremations. The images sum up the Sri Lankan government’s quandary. Desperate for China’s helping hand in Port City, the government’s default setting for managing the pandemic in Sri Lanka has been to follow Modi’s disastrous footsteps in India.
India is the third country after the US and Brazil to cross the grim milestone. The US has so far reported over 589,000 deaths and Brazil 448,000 deaths. It took India more than a year to reach the 200,000-mark. However, with the severe second wave there has been a huge surge and over 4,000 deaths were recorded daily on several days this month. Union health ministry data said that as of Sunday morning, 3,741 fresh deaths were recorded in the country. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Delhi recorded the highest number of deaths. As of Sunday morning, 1o states –the four mentioned above and Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, and Andhra Pradesh – accounted for 74 per cent of the daily deaths.
Covid deaths globally at least double of official records
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New Delhi: Health worker and relative carries the body of covid-19 affected victims for last rites at Nigambodh ghat in New Delhi on Sunday, 16 May, 2021.(Photo: Qamar Sibtain/IANS). Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 22 : Multiple estimates now suggest a significant undercounting of Covid deaths globally.
As per estimates of the World Health Organisation (WHO) the actual number of deaths could be even 2 or 3 times high. WHO estimates show that #COVID19 was responsible for at least 3 million excess deaths in 2020. That s 1.2 million more deaths than officially reported. The actual number could even be 2 or 3 times high , Samira Asma, Assistant Director General , @WHO for Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact said in a tweet.