A quarter of the world population, 2% of infections. Southern Asia Corona Mystery-Chosun.com

South Asia was the area where the coronavirus was expected to emerge in the first place. There are many people, the medical facilities are poor and poor …. The region is home to 1.35 billion people in India, Pakistan (218.2 million people) and Bangladesh (161.4 million people). Incidentally, three months after the first infection, the number of people infected in seven countries in South Asia, including Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, including these three countries, was 6,685 (2% of deaths of the world), and the number of deaths was 1677. People. In contrast, 1.07 million people were infected in the United States, the largest developed rich country with a population of 380 million, and more than 6,300 died of coronavirus. The total number of infected people in Spain and Italy only amounted to 420,000.

Foreign Policy, a US magazine specializing in international affairs, recently reported that “lower than expected infection and death rates in the region are a mystery.”

Of course, as the cause of the surprisingly low crown infection rate, it is possible to consider the number of infection tests that are extremely low. India has carried out 830,000 infection tests so far. This is the lowest rate in the world, with 614 cases per million people. However, in this test, the infection confirmation rate was only 4%. The United States was 17%. It can be inferred that coronaviruses spread relatively less in the Indian subcontinent.

Furthermore, with the exception of Pakistan, which has not closed international air routes to China, the countries of the region have been forced to contain a national and national containment policy from the outset. You may think that this has stopped spreading or is still in its infancy. However, in a sudden policy of containment, millions of migrant workers in India were unable to return home and were exposed to unsanitary conditions as a group.

Due to the low level of medical services, the death rate from coronavirus is probably not correct. In fact, in India, only 20% of deaths are diagnosed in hospitals. But in the past three months, there has been no sudden increase in the number of paralyzed patients in this area.

Another reason is that the age group is very young. The median age of the population is 38 years in the United States, while India is only 28 years old, Bangladesh 26 and Pakistan 24. However, although many young people infected with crown showed “asymptomatic” and were not included in the statistics or hospital records, the virus should have spread to older and older adults.

Furthermore, the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that the claim that South Asia is a warm region or that the medication to treat pulmonary tuberculosis prevalent in the region is resistant to the coronavirus is unfounded.

The magazine said: “With this mystery, India and Bangladesh are gradually beginning to unravel social containment policies, and Pakistan has opened a mosque to pray for Ramadan (Islamic fasting month) and cannot know how the virus will spread in the future”. .