At ThePrint's Off The Cuff, Apollo Hospitals chairman Dr Prathap Reddy said Covid was defying normal virus behaviour, and hoped China would reveal how to control it.
On #ThePrintOTC with Editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta, Dr Prathap C. Reddy, founder of Apollo Hospitals told talked about how Apollo Hospitals manage Covid-19 patients, why...
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Prathap Reddy has made himself a great fool by making such stupid speech, pretending to be smart in hinting a China’s conspiracy. Apollo hospitals should investigate his qualification, as his medical certificate is likely a fake one sold in Bombay, a common practice of 80% India Drs are quack(quoted India ex-Health Minister, Reuters).
Not just China, but Taiwan, SK, Spore, Vietnam, Nz, Oz and various Asia countries are containing the outbreak very well, all achieved by a similar very organized gov using strong actions (which West accused as authoritarian) and a very discipline nations that trust their gov to obey strict lockdown guidelines, with a robust test, trace and quarantine regime.
Whereas India Godi fired off a disastrous unprepared lockdown that resulted in 100Mils hungry jobless migrant workers walking thousands km back to hometowns, spreading the virus to every corners faraway. Even India took early precaution wisely as early as Feb2020 like most Asia, India infamous broken healthcare and supply chain can’t sustain a nation wide lockdown or systematic trace & quarantine regime that China & other Asians adopted.
India 400Mils crowded slums dwellers, untreated sewage discharge into water sources, with 740Mils defecating outdoor are a huge petri dish for any virus.
Delhi study had found 33% sampling have anti-body since May’20, implying up to 400Mils are already infected. But India has very low testing capacity with no ability to trace & quarantine. Its a gone case.
Infact India people are worst in violating lockdown guidelines even in overseas. 99% of Singapore cases are reported from the 200,000 India-Bangladesh workers is not mere coincidence. 90% imported cases are from India. Those caught violating lockdown curfew running wild & drunk are mostly India national. If these Top3% of Indians are so badly behaved in a small tightly controlled police state(Spore), what’s more for the remaining less educated 97% India people living in huge India!
They just controlled it better. Dr Reddybis a respected physician but he has no knowledge of clinical medicine for 30 years or more. His comments are of no consequence. We just talked, put lockdowns, fudged data, had idiots like VK PAUL and BALRAM BHARGAVA run our Covid campaign and hoped that it would go away
I totally agree with the comments of Dr Reddy & is a accurate analysis of the Chinese origin pandemic.You are right,the Chinese are holding back some information which they should announce & help humanity.By keeping quiet China will be remembered for generations to come as a nation lacking any human sense.
I live in Beijing and have seen the living from very close in China . There is no secret of controlling . It’s simple governance and commitment of people and their trust in what their Govt says on what’s good for them . No arguments on Masks, Social distancing and basic precautions. Almost voluntary lock down or lathi wielding policemen and implementation of public health control of contact tracing and testing and treatment . Really . Its just implementation on massive scale and execution of policies .
Prathap Reddy had a point. The order of nations in terms of population is – China, India, USA, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia – all of them have had widespread virus infection in all nook and cranny of their countries – except China. The virus originated there and we know they were trying to desperately cover up the outbreak – so how did it not spread more widely in China? Even now in India when lockdown was lifted, virus infection shot up – again nothing of that sort seems to affect China. Inexplicable unless the Chinese know something which they are not revealing to the rest of the world.
Prathap Reddy has made himself a great fool by making such stupid speech, pretending to be smart in hinting a China’s conspiracy. Apollo hospitals should investigate his qualification, as his medical certificate is likely a fake one sold in Bombay, a common practice of 80% India Drs are quack(quoted India ex-Health Minister, Reuters).
Not just China, but Taiwan, SK, Spore, Vietnam, Nz, Oz and various Asia countries are containing the outbreak very well, all achieved by a similar very organized gov using strong actions (which West accused as authoritarian) and a very discipline nations that trust their gov to obey strict lockdown guidelines, with a robust test, trace and quarantine regime.
Whereas India Godi fired off a disastrous unprepared lockdown that resulted in 100Mils hungry jobless migrant workers walking thousands km back to hometowns, spreading the virus to every corners faraway. Even India took early precaution wisely as early as Feb2020 like most Asia, India infamous broken healthcare and supply chain can’t sustain a nation wide lockdown or systematic trace & quarantine regime that China & other Asians adopted.
India 400Mils crowded slums dwellers, untreated sewage discharge into water sources, with 740Mils defecating outdoor are a huge petri dish for any virus.
Delhi study had found 33% sampling have anti-body since May’20, implying up to 400Mils are already infected. But India has very low testing capacity with no ability to trace & quarantine. Its a gone case.
Infact India people are worst in violating lockdown guidelines even in overseas. 99% of Singapore cases are reported from the 200,000 India-Bangladesh workers is not mere coincidence. 90% imported cases are from India. Those caught violating lockdown curfew running wild & drunk are mostly India national. If these Top3% of Indians are so badly behaved in a small tightly controlled police state(Spore), what’s more for the remaining less educated 97% India people living in huge India!
And how many have Capitalism killed ???
The comments in this section are stupid as is the PRINT’s article. Very stupid
They just controlled it better. Dr Reddybis a respected physician but he has no knowledge of clinical medicine for 30 years or more. His comments are of no consequence. We just talked, put lockdowns, fudged data, had idiots like VK PAUL and BALRAM BHARGAVA run our Covid campaign and hoped that it would go away
I guys people need to watch other news sources to see how china is also impacted for cities as well
I totally agree with the comments of Dr Reddy & is a accurate analysis of the Chinese origin pandemic.You are right,the Chinese are holding back some information which they should announce & help humanity.By keeping quiet China will be remembered for generations to come as a nation lacking any human sense.
I live in Beijing and have seen the living from very close in China . There is no secret of controlling . It’s simple governance and commitment of people and their trust in what their Govt says on what’s good for them . No arguments on Masks, Social distancing and basic precautions. Almost voluntary lock down or lathi wielding policemen and implementation of public health control of contact tracing and testing and treatment . Really . Its just implementation on massive scale and execution of policies .
Prathap Reddy had a point. The order of nations in terms of population is – China, India, USA, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia – all of them have had widespread virus infection in all nook and cranny of their countries – except China. The virus originated there and we know they were trying to desperately cover up the outbreak – so how did it not spread more widely in China? Even now in India when lockdown was lifted, virus infection shot up – again nothing of that sort seems to affect China. Inexplicable unless the Chinese know something which they are not revealing to the rest of the world.
Dont expect CCP goons to act good
Commies are worst killers of mankind
They have killed more than 100 million people so far
And counting