Coronavirus or Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It is a viral disease that turned into a pandemic in early 2020. The first known case was recorded in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Coronavirus has multiple variants such as Delta and Omicron, and its most common symptoms are fever, chills and sore throat.
The virus spreads through liquid particles when the infected person coughs, sneezes or breathes – it has a high multiplication rate. Therefore, the world had taken measures to quarantine or isolate those infected. While the disease can be mild and recoverable, those older or with underlying medical conditions are more likely to be adversely affected. The disease caused according to WHO estimates 3 million deaths in 2020.
Idiots. Look at your headline of this article. South Korea is 20 percent of world population.
Positive rate of people who show symptoms is the only valid statistics because these are the people who might die.
Dear Sir
I think non of the Asian countries share their correct figures because it might be fear about drop in their economies . But most of the big investors are belongs from Europe and Japan and USA and these are developed nations .
Therefore they have no reasons to hide anything’s.
This is absolutely correct. Overall, the South-Asian countries are less developed and less civilized countries. They are trying to sweep things under the rug to protect their economies by reducing the possibility of panic that could lead to chaos, rioting, looting, violence, or other criminal activity because this would negatively affect buying, selling, trading, production, importing goods, exporting goods, and tourism that take place in the South Asian countries. Underreporting and lying about the Covid-19 case numbers also allows these countries to avoid responsibility plus negative publicity for any part they may have had in helping to spread the virus as well as how incompetent their healthcare systems and emergency response systems are.
An excellent analysis. I have made a brief comparative study of five countries by using the simple arithmetical tool of compounded growth rate. The unit of interval is taken 1 week (7 days) and starting point for each country is when total infections were around 1000. The working of percentage average daily compounded growth rate for these five countries is as under :
(1) India : Week 1 Beginning 29-03 : 22.7 %, Week 2 : 11.52%, Week 3 : 9.71%, Week 4 ( 5 days upto 24-04)) : 6.77%
Active cases are still rising. India is in the middle stage of corona outbreak.
(2) Italy : Week 1 (beginning 28-02): 26.6% , Week 2 : 21.5%, Week-3 : 15.01% , Week 4: 9.09%, Week 5 : 4.76
Week-6 : 3.02%, Week-7 : 2.24, Week 8 ending 24-04 : 1.62%
Active cases have started falling. Italy is thinking of opening up its economy.
(3) Spain : Week 1 (beginning 08-03): 42.36%, Week 2: 20.08%, Week 3: 15.75, Week 4 : 7.35%, Week 5: 3.37%
Week 6: 2.58%, Week 7 (5 days upto 24-04) : 2.03%
Active cases curve was flattening but has slightly risen again since April -17
(4) France (beginning 07-03) : Week 1: 24.89%, Week 2: 18.14%, Week 3: 14.61%, Week 4: 12.87%, Week 5: 4.65%, week 6: 2.47%, Week 7 ending 24-04: 1.59%.
Active cases curve has started flattening from April 21.
(5) USA : Week 1 ( beginning 10.03) : 30.35%, Week 2: 36.24%, Week 3: 19.55%, Week 4 : 11.30%
Week 5 : 6.16%, Week 7 ending 21-04 : 4.1%
Active cases curve is still rising.
Data is sourced from the website Worldometer. Though this study is based on elementary arithmetic, the conclusions are quite interesting. All countries depict a deceleration in growth rates of total infections. . Active cases will not fall unless growth rate in total infections falls below 2% per day. India has still long way to go. It will take at least 3 weeks for India to achieve the lowering of daily growth rate below 2%. India’s total infections can go beyond 1 lakh by the third week of May 2020. But it is not the total number but the number of active case that matters the most. Secondly, even if flattening of active cases curve is achieved, one cannot presume that the war against corona virus has been conquered.