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A health worker (left) is being helped by a colleague to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as she prepares to conduct a Covid-19 coronavirus test on bus passengers at a proving ground in Sanathal, on the outskirts Ahmedabad on August 30. , 2020. India set a coronavirus record on August 30 when it reported 78,761 new infections in 24 hours, the world’s highest increase in a single day, even as it continued to open up the economy. Photo by SAM PANTHAKY / AFP
NEW DELHI – India has crossed a bleak new milestone with a daily increase of 78,761 new coronavirus cases in a 24-hour window. This is the highest single-day increase in Covid-19 infections reported by any country since the start of the pandemic.
India has registered a total of more than 3.5 million cases, approaching the figure of 3.8 million in Brazil. The Latin American country, which registered 41,350 cases on Saturday, ranks second on the list of countries affected by the virus. The United States has more than 6.1 million cases, with 42,843 new cases registered on Saturday.
The three worst-affected countries continue to record massive numbers of infections every day, and they are largely responsible for the global count surpassing 25 million yesterday as countries tightened restrictions further to try to curb the growing pandemic.
India, which has been recording more than 75,000 cases a day since last Thursday, chose to further relax its blocking restrictions. It will allow the metro services, which have been closed since March, to resume operations as of next Monday and gave the green light to social functions with a maximum concentration of 100 people as of September 21.
“Starting metro services is a big risk given the spikes we have seen,” said Dr. MC Misra, former director of the Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, a major government hospital in Delhi.
“Social gatherings should have been avoided due to the large number of asymptomatic people who can pass it on to other people,” he told The Straits Times.
India is also feared to record more positive cases as testing rates rise. More than 1.05 million tests were conducted across the country on Saturday, the highest in a single day in India.
This figure was 525,689 at the beginning of the month.
“Whatever peak we are seeing today is despite the fact that not all carriers of the virus have been tested. The number of actual infections could be double, triple or ten times higher, ”added Dr Misra, referring to recent serological surveys indicating widespread asymptomatic infections in some Indian cities such as Mumbai and Delhi. A sero-survey is performed by analyzing blood serum taken from a sample of people in a community to detect antibodies.
Despite the worrying spread of the pandemic that has gripped even rural areas of India, government officials have highlighted the drop in the death rate, currently at 1.79 percent of all cases, as well. such as the current recovery rate of 76.61 percent to defend their handling of the problem. situation.
A report by Agence France-Presse has said an additional one million cases have been detected around the world roughly every four days since the middle of last month, and countries like New Zealand and South Korea that had largely controlled their outbreaks. now they fight against new groups.
The report added that masks will be mandatory from today on public transport and flights in New Zealand.
While the number of new daily cases in South Korea fell below 300 yesterday for the first time in five days, the Yonhap news agency said the number of daily virus cases has remained in the triple digits for more than two. weeks and may increase again as new clusters have emerged in recent days.
Tougher social distancing measures have been extended in the Seoul metropolitan area for another week and restrictions have been placed on restaurants, bakeries and coffee franchise chains in the region.
Meanwhile, today marks the deadline for countries to submit their expression of interest to participate in the World Health Organization’s global Covax initiative that seeks to ensure that a Covid-19 vaccine is available worldwide to income countries. Ups and downs.
Its goal is to offer two billion doses of vaccines by the end of next year equally to all participating countries. But it has struggled to find the full support of some of the richest countries. The United States, Great Britain, Japan and the European Union have reached their own agreements to ensure access to a vaccine.
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