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The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 15.5 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 12.4 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 6.4 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 121,469
U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at 91,440
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 3,912
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 10.1 % of the population
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases improved, hospitalizations improved, and deaths worsened
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India s sudden drop in coronavirus cases has puzzled disease experts. Strict public-health measures and difficulty recording rural cases may have factored in.
India s sudden drop in coronavirus cases has puzzled disease experts. Strict public-health measures and difficulty recording rural cases may have factored in.
Aria BendixFeb 19, 2021, 05:51 IST
A student gets her body temperature taken in Hyderabad, India on February 1, 2021.Partha Sarkar/Xinhua/Getty Images
India s daily
coronavirus cases have plummeted since September.
The nation is now reporting just 8 daily cases per one million people, among the lowest per-capita rates in the world.
Experts say the decline is puzzling. The difficulty of recording rural cases, combined with strict public-health measures, may offer some explanation.
India s sudden drop in coronavirus cases has puzzled disease experts Feb 04, 2021, 08:04 AM
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India s daily coronavirus cases have plummeted since September.
The nation is now reporting just 9 daily cases per one million people, among the lowest per-capita rates in the world.
Experts say the sharp decline in cases is puzzling but the difficulty of recording rural infections, combined with strict public-health measures, may offer some explanation.
At the start of the pandemic, few countries were more ripe for a major coronavirus outbreak than India.
Not only is India the world s second most populous country, it s also one of the densest, with around 1,200 people per square mile. Cases there climbed steadily from April through September, reaching a peak of nearly 100,000 daily cases on September 16.
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February 1, 2021
Last September, India was confirming nearly 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day. It was on track to overtake the United States to become the country with the highest reported COVID-19 caseload in the world. Hospitals were full. The Indian economy nosedived into an unprecedented recession.
But four months later, India’s coronavirus numbers have plummeted. Late last month, on Jan. 26, the country’s Health Ministry confirmed a record low of about 9,100 new cases – in a country of nearly 1.4 billion people. It was India’s lowest daily tally in eight months. On Monday, India confirmed about 11,000 cases.
“It’s not that India is testing less, or things are going underreported,” says Jishnu Das, a health economist at Georgetown University. “It’s been rising, rising and now suddenly, it’s vanished! I mean, hospital ICU utilization has gone down. Every indicator says the numbers are down.”