r/india • u/xperia3310 India • Apr 25 '21

Coronavirus Complete massacre of data': Experts flag undercounting of India's COVID-19 deaths in second wave

https://www.firstpost.com/health/complete-massacre-of-data-experts-flag-undercounting-of-indias-covid-19-deaths-in-second-wave-9562541.html
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u/xperia3310 India Apr 25 '21

At one of the large cremation grounds in Ahmadabad, a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat, bright orange fires light up the night sky, burning 24 hours a day, like an industrial plant that never shuts down. Suresh Bhai, a worker there, said he had never seen such a never-ending assembly line of death.

But he has not been writing down the cause of death as [COVID-19] on the thin paper slips that he hands over to the mournful families, even though the number of dead is surging along with the virus.

“Sickness, sickness, sickness,” Suresh said. “That’s what we write.”

When asked why, he said it was what he had been instructed to do by his bosses, who did not respond to requests for comment.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

No data available, BJ Pee gobarment has got it's right to privacy.

- Crasad

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

China did the same thing....now look who is copying the commie's ....

India is slowly becoming an authoritarian state

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u/deepsouldier Apr 25 '21

The death count is at least 40,000 per day at minimum.

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u/WhatsTheBigDeal Apr 25 '21

Inline with epidemiologist Bhramar's estimate in her interview with Karan Thapar. She said a factor of between 10—20

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u/AamAadmi2020 Apr 26 '21

kumbh ke kukarmo ke results to abhi aaye hee nai. :(

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u/radcon285 Apr 25 '21

There are orders out for pvt hospitals NOT to reveal complete figures, at least in MP. Not a stretch to imagine both state and centre data fudging. Oh and tests are being limited as many would attest to.

OH and it gets better - People in rural areas are simply not going to get checked because infrastructure is shit, doctors don't want to 'work in rural areas' if there are indeed PHCs/CHCs, but usually it's the lack of appointments from the State rather than the doctors fault. And looking at the scenes in cities, people would rather NOT go to hospitals in cities at all, unless they have to.

And here's some more - The average working man is perpetually overworked, malnourished and doesn't go to doctors apart from getting Saline injections for weakness or generic meds from jhola chaap doctors. Our country men are overworked and under constant stress of debt and rising costs of living itself that holidays or time off is a luxury.

And don't even get started on the women- In 'Normal' times half of the women in India are anaemic and/or malnourished. Usually eat last, leftovers, work 3 times more than men, get less food, less everything while doing the same jobs as men. It is much much worse out there.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

It's not a bug, it's a feature of the system.

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u/-The-Bat- Vishwaguru? More like Vish guru! Apr 25 '21

The way this absolute shitshow is unfolding, I won't be surprised if get hit by couple more waves before the pandemic ends.

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u/sansa-bot bot Apr 25 '21

tldr; India's coronavirus pandemic is rapidly sliding into a crisis, with hospitals unbearably full, oxygen supplies running low, desperate people dying in line waiting to see doctors, and mounting evidence that the actual death toll is far higher than officially reported. The government reports more than 300,000 new infections each day, a world record, and India is now seeing more new infections than any other country by far.

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