The number of confirmed cases of India's new crown broke 500,000, from 400,000 to 500,000 in just 6 days
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Top New Global News | June 27, 2020 18:50
Original title: The number of confirmed cases of India's new crown broke 500,000
Xinhua News Agency, New Delhi, June 27th (Reporter Zhao Xu) The latest data from the Indian Ministry of Health on the 27th showed that in the past 24 hours, India has added 18,370 confirmed cases of new crowns and 383 new deaths. As of 8:00 on the 27th local time (10:30 Beijing time), a total of 508,953 cases were diagnosed, 15,685 deaths and 295,881 cases were cured.
The data shows that India is currently the country with the largest number of confirmed cases of the new crown in Asia. The most severely affected areas include the capital New Delhi, the financial center Mumbai and its Maharashtra state, the southeastern port city of Chennai and its location Tamil Nadu. The cumulative number of confirmed cases in these three regions exceeds 300,000, accounting for more than 60% of the total number of cases in India.
Due to the different development of the epidemic situation in India, experts believe that the peak time of the epidemic situation will be different in different regions. The Hindustan Times quoted Gurelia, director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, on the 27th as saying that places like New Delhi and Mumbai may peak in the next few weeks.
According to the data of the Ministry of Health of India, the time for each additional 100,000 cases in India has been continuously shortened, from 400,000 to 500,000 in only 6 days, which is much shorter than the 109 days for the first 100,000 cases.
Dr. Dara, a professor at the Indian Institute of Public Health, believes that due to poor self-discipline in health habits among Indians, the surge in confirmed cases is somewhat expected. He called on Indian people to develop the habit of wearing masks and washing hands frequently, "because it is difficult for people to maintain social distance in slums or densely populated urban areas."
Indian Prime Minister Modi also appealed to the public to wear masks and maintain social distance through video on the 26th, saying, "Before the vaccine comes out, the mask is the antidote."
According to local media reports, from June 27 to July 10, New Delhi will conduct a large-scale serum antibody sampling survey throughout the city. In a statement, the Ministry of Health of India said that large-scale serum antibody testing will enable relevant departments to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the new crown epidemic situation, which can be used as a reference when formulating a long-term strategy to combat the epidemic situation in the future.