The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Saturday that a few states are witnessing an uptick in the number of new Covid-19 cases reported daily for the last one week
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February 16, 2021 7:12 am
By KRUTIKA PATHI and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in India, there were fears it would sink the fragile health system of the world’s second-most populous country. Infections climbed dramatically for months and at one point India looked like it might overtake the United States as the country with the highest case toll.
But infections began to plummet in September, and now the country is reporting about 11,000 new cases a day, compared to a peak of nearly 100,000, leaving experts perplexed.
They have suggested many possible explanations for the sudden drop seen in almost every region including that some areas of the country may have reached herd immunity or that Indians may have some preexisting protection from the virus.
February 18, 2021
When India went into lockdown in March 2020, the fear of Covid-19 swiftly spreading through a densely populated country of 1.3 billion people was dangerously real.
A harsh lockdown, one of the strictest in the world, created a humanitarian crisis of its own, pushing millions of migrant workers to take arduous journeys back home on foot. But the possible catastrophic impact of the pandemic was considered greater in magnitude by the government.
Nearly 11 months on, the Covid-19 infections and fatalities in India tell a different story.
In the early days of the pandemic in the country, for instance, the projected fatalities from the viral infection were believed to be 4 million. But as of Feb. 18, deaths from Covid-19 in India stand at 155,913, less than 10% of the estimate.