Confirmed cases of New Crown in India cross 800,000. The outbreak continues to rebound in several countries in the Middle East, with the number of confirmed cases continuing to grow at a high level, and several of the worst-hit areas of the outbreak being cordoned off. First of all, India currently has limited testing, due to the severe lack of medical resources, the Indian government has stipulated that those who are not traveling abroad are not allowed to be tested, even if they are showing symptoms of New Crown Pneumonia. According to the Associated Press, only 90 samples of the new coronavirus are tested each day in India. This is similar to the initial situation in the U.S., where the diagnosis cannot be confirmed without testing, but if this continues, there will be a lot of infected patients who will keep infecting more people in the community, causing a major outbreak. on March 6th, the government of Bhutan announced that the first confirmed case of neocoronavirus pneumonia was an American who had traveled to India before. on March 16th, the 1st case was confirmed in Rwanda which was also a case imported from India.? This suggests that there are many latent cases in India that have gone undetected and spread to other countries.
Secondly, the medical conditions are poor and there is a severe shortage of medical personnel and supplies. Many populous states in India are economically backward and have poor sanitation, and the healthcare system is even more fragile, with serious shortages in medical accessories such as masks and protective clothing. According to data from India's Ministry of Health in July 2019, there are 1,157,000 registered doctors in India***, with a doctor-to-patient ratio of 1 to 1,457, which is lower than the World Health Organization's 1 to 1,000 standard. And as the epidemic spreads, already inadequate healthcare workers have begun to get infected. With limited protective equipment, infection control is low in routine hospitals, including in urban areas, and the risk of cross-infection among patients is high. In rural areas and peri-urban slum areas, because of limitations in testing standards and laboratory distribution, hospitals in many areas do not have testing equipment, which may result in the inability to diagnose suspected patients, further contributing to the spread of the epidemic. Finally, social isolation is difficult. Although India has been closed to the whole country for isolation, all flights are grounded, railroads and highways are embargoed, and all border crossings are blocked. However, India's domestic population is dense, and there are religious activities, the control of human flow is more difficult to do. Most Indians live in very crowded environments, especially in urban slums and rural areas, and widespread blockades are very difficult. These subjective and objective reasons combine to make the local epidemic in India extremely difficult to manage and rebound seriously!