BIG JUMP IN NEW COVID-19 INFECTIONS IN INDIA
From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: Globally, many poorer and developing countries have experienced far more deaths above normal levels than wealthy ones have during 2020 and 2021, according to data released by the W.H.O. that aims to measure the true toll of the pandemic.
While most rich countries have comparatively older populations, they also have had access to the lion’s share of lifesaving supplies such as vaccines, antiviral treatments, masks and testing kits. Some of the countries with the largest increases in death rates during the first two years of the pandemic were those in the upper-middle-income groups: Ecuador (50 percent above normal), Mexico (about 40 percent above normal) and Peru (97 percent above normal).
Some wealthy countries have also seen major spikes in deaths. In the U.S., deaths were 15 percent above normal, a number surpassed by only four other large, high-income countries: Chile, the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania.
Global scale: According to the report, about 13 percent more people worldwide, or about 15 million more people, died than expected in the first two years of the pandemic.
BIG JUMP IN NEW COVID-19 INFECTIONS IN INDIA
As Our Bureau reported from Delhi….
India on Wednesday recorded a big jump in the Covid-19 infections to 2,124 in the past 24 hours as against 1,675 a day earlier even while recording 4 deaths in a day — 2 in Delhi and 1 each in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The Health Ministry’s infection record for the day is 17 because of the previous days’ demises. Delhi recorded 418 infections in 24 hours.
The nationwide infections totalled 4,31,42,192, out of which 5,24,507 succumbed to death and 4,26,02,714 made the recoveries. The active cases inched further for the second day to 14,971, an increase of 130 cases.
With 13.27 lakh vaccine doses administered in the past 24 hours, the national vaccination reached 192.67 crore.
