Prabhu Shisharnappa Banshette, 37, provides transportation to citizens, including Covid-19 patients, wearing personal protective equipment in Pune. (Express photo: Pavan Khengre)
President Donald Trump, who was admitted to a military hospital for treatment for COVID-19, said he has started to “feel a lot better” and thanked the American people and world leaders for their support. “I came here. It didn’t feel so good. I feel much better now. We are working hard to recover. I have to go back because we still have to make America great again,” Trump said in a video message from the military hospital. in a Washington suburb on Saturday, however, White House physician Sean Conley has said the president “is not out of the woods yet.”
Maharashtra accounts for more than a third of India’s deaths, having recorded nearly 38,000 deaths so far. It also has a very high CFR of 2.67 percent. Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have each recorded more than 9,000 deaths, but their CFRs are in line with the national average, around 1.5 percent. Delhi, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh have each had more than 5,000 deaths. Kerala, Bihar, Assam, Odisha and even Andhra Pradesh appear to be doing relatively well in preventing deaths. These states have one of the lowest CFRs among states with 1 lakh of cases or more.
Deaths per million people are even lower in India, almost half the world average. So far, only about 72 deaths per million inhabitants have occurred in the country; globally, this number is 131. This has led to questioning the authenticity of India’s death numbers. On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump, in an effort to defend his own government’s record in minimizing the loss of life, suggested that India was reporting no deaths. Many scientists and health experts actually believe that the deaths in India might be somewhat underestimated, but no one is sure to what extent.
Meanwhile, without internal production of liquefied oxygen in Madhya Pradesh, much of its medical and industrial needs are met in neighboring states, primarily Maharashtra. However, in early September, Maharashtra, which is dealing with the increasing cases of Covid, ordered its producers to restrict supplies out of state. Since then, hospitals in Jabalpur and Indore, among other districts of Madhya Pradesh, have been affected.
Although on September 18 the central government urged states not to impose restrictions on the movement of oxygen, the supply continues to be affected. MP’s 11 ASUs manufacture oxygen on a much smaller scale and primarily to meet the needs of local steel industries.
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