India and South America are parameters of new global peak in Covid-19, New York Times says

The climax of the contagion at the World level had been recorded on January 11, with 740,180 new cases. However, the planet is currently going through a new high. During the last half of April, the highest number of daily infections was detected on average. This trend has continued to increase, and over the last few days of the past month, the global number has consistently remained above 800,000 cases per day, with a peak of 824.304 April 29l, according to a statistical report published by the newspaper The New York Times.

To a large extent, this new global peak in infections is generated by the critical situation in India, where since April 1, they have quintupled contagions, until Thursday April 29 at 357,000 cases; in this way, India represents 40% of new sick patients in the world, In a country where more than three thousand deaths are reported daily, although analysts – according to the American newspaper – consider that there may even be an under-registration of fatal cases of Covid-19.

On the other hand, the statistical report of The New York Times stresses that worrying trends are also recorded in Latin America. Uruguay corresponds, for example an average of 59 deaths newspapers in the last seven days of April, every hundred thousand inhabitants. These data show a rate of 1.71 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. It is, at this moment, one of the highest rates in the world. In terms of infections, an average of 84 daily infections per 100,000 inhabitants, also one of the highest indicators in the world, with an average of 2,918 new infections per day.

Worrisome data was also detected in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Peru. For example, in Paraguay, an average of 91 deaths every day, which generates a rate of 1.29 coronavirus deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, with an average of 2,352 new infections every 24 hours.

In Brazil, the average daily mortality is 2,526, or a rate of 1.2 per hundred thousand inhabitantswhile there infections climb to 60,386 per day, which represents 29 new cases per 100,000 people in 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the figures for Argentina are – in this sense – similar to those for Peru and Colombia. Here it was recorded during the last week of April an average of 409 deaths per day, which leaves a rate of 0.91 per hundred thousand inhabitants, and the average number of infected people recorded daily is 22,763, which represents 51 new infections in 24 hours, per 100,000 inhabitants.

In contrast, in Peru the death rate is 1.09 per 100,000 citizens and in Colombia 0.89, with 354 and 447 people dying each day, respectively, in these countries. In Peru, the average daily number of people infected was 8,076, while in Colombia it was 17,616.

India’s dangerous situation

Until just a few months ago, India, the second most populous country in the world, received praise for its handling of the pandemic; however, since March, this world power has been sinking more and more into a second wave; it is a crisis born from the combination of a new strain and an easing of restrictions that collapsed hospitals, caused a desperate oxygen shortage and defeated a society in which social distancing it is sometimes impractical.

With more than 19.1 million cases and around 211,853 deaths, this crisis worries the international community because this country is one of the main producers of vaccines against the coronavirus and has decided to stop the export of doses to speed up vaccination. internal and slow down the transmission of the virus in a territory barely 15% larger than Argentina, but with a population thirty times larger.

“India had maintained the situation very well in relative terms with other countries in the world. This was largely due to a very severe containment and measures taken by the central government over the past year. The country was paralyzed for about five months and that also came at an economic cost. It suffered a collapse in its GDP, the most grave since its independence ”, explained in this context the Ambassador of Argentina in this country, Hugo Gobbi, in a report to the State agency Telam.

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