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> These are interesting strategies, are there places to read more? Here's WEF's report on India's cluster-containment strategy[1]. >Most of my Indian friends
by Abishek_Muthian 7y ago
> These are interesting strategies, are there places to read more?
Here's WEF's report on India's cluster-containment strategy[1].
>Most of my Indian friends are the South and wealthy
India of Wealthy is radically different from others, Just $77,000 is required to be at the top 1% in the country[2].
> my province in Canada has imported 16 cases from India,
That's indeed very interesting. India stopped International flights on Mar 23 and the infections as of Mar23 were < ~500[3]. Though it is possible that those 16 acquired the disease from super spreaders in India[4], the likelihood of them arriving in Canada is extremely low.
May be they contracted it in their flight to Canada or did they cross land border from US?
Do note that, India's infection rate is among the highest in Asia as of writing [5].
[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/india-covid19-coronavirus-response-kerala-uttar-pradesh/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/india-covid19-coronav...
[2] https://www.businessinsider.in/slideshows/miscellaneous/heres-how-much-money-you-have-to-make-to-be-in-the-top-1-in-different-countries-around-the-world/slidelist/74014945.cms https://www.businessinsider.in/slideshows/miscellaneous/here...
[3] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/
[4] https://www.google.com/search?q=India+super+spreader https://www.google.com/search?q=India+super+spreader
[5] https://www.thehindu.com/data/indias-coronavirus-infection-rates-are-among-the-highest-in-asia/article31440360.ece https://www.thehindu.com/data/indias-coronavirus-infection-r...
- legolas2412 7y agoRegarding [5], it says infection rate but talks about absolute number of cases. Which isn't a big surprise to be second in, India is a big country.
- Abishek_Muthian 7y agoI'm not entirely sure what you expected from 'infection rate', it is the terminology being used every where to signify the number of infections. If you wanted to know, 'how many people does a single person spread the infection' i.e. R0 or R-Naught; then it has come down to 1.55 on 11th April from 1.83 on 6th April[6]. [6] https://theprint.in/science/r0-data-shows-indias-coronavirus-infection-rate-has-slowed-gives-lockdown-a-thumbs-up/399734/ https://theprint.in/science/r0-data-shows-indias-coronavirus...
- legolas2412 7y agoYou can't say infection rate and not say a percentage. What the article says is the number of infections, not a rate. And I'm not talking about the effective reproduction number.