India Fares Better Than Several Countries In Containing COVID-19

Though the coronavirus pandemic has affected countries world over but the measures taken by India puts it in a relatively better position when compared with the situation in other countries.

The rate at which Covid-19 cases has been doubling in India is slower than several other countries such as the USA, Italy and Spain.

Similarly, the total number of cases and deaths per million is lower in India than these countries which have been hit hard by the pandemic.

As per the data sourced from the health ministry, the cases doubled from 750 to 1500 and from 1500-3000 in four days in India whereas it took five days for the number of cases to double from 3000-6000 and six days to reach the 12000 mark.

In US, it took two days for cases to double from 750, three days to go up from 1500 to 3000, two days from 3000 to 6000 and another two days to go up from 6000 to 12000 cases.

In Italy, for the same range of cases, it took two, three, four days and three days respectively.

The number of days it took in Spain for cases to double was one, two, two and four days.

In UK, cases went up from 750 to 1500 in three days, from 1500-3000 in three days, 3000-6000 in four days and from 6000-12000 in four days.

Countries like the UK, Spain and France saw the rise of cases from 6,000 to 12,000 in four days each, in Italy it happened in three days. In Canada the number doubled to 12,000 in five days.

As far as testing is concerned, India also tested more people in comparison to other countries when the cases crossed the 5,000 and 10,000 marks.

India had tested 114,015 cases when the COVID-19 positive cases reached at 5000 figure while 217,554 were tested while the positive cases stood at 10,000.

In US, at 5,000 cases, they had tested 104073 while at 10,000 mark 139,878 individuals were tested.

In UK, 78,340 people were tested when the mark was 5,000 while at 10,000 mark  testing for 113,777 was done.

Canada has fared well in comparison to India, they have tested 241,138 cases and 295,065 cases when the mark reached 5,000 and 10,000 respectively.

As per the official figure, India has nine Covid-19 patients per one million population while it stood at 267 per million globally.

As compared to India, Spain has 3,864 cases per million, Italy 2,732, France 2,265, the US 1,946, Germany 1,608 and Japan 68 cases.

India has 0.3 deaths per million population, as compared to 86 in the US, 402 in Spain, 358 in Italy and 190 in the UK, 263 in France, 45 in Germany and one in Japan.

The deaths per million population worldwide stands at 17.3.

The data also shows that India has only nine Covid-19 patients per 10 lakh population, which is far lesser than other countries.

While the US has 1946 patients per 10 lakh population, Spain has 3864 cases, Italy has 2732, France 2265, the UK 1451 and Germany 1608 coronavirus patients per 10 lakh population.

The pandemic which has claimed over 1.30 lakh lives globally, has led to the death of over 400 patients in India which is approximately 0.3 persons per 10 lakh population, the data said.

In the US, 86 people have died per 10 lakh population, 402 per 10 lakh population deaths have been recorded in Spain, 358 in Italy, 263 in France, 190 in the UK, 27 in Canada and 45 deaths per 10 lakh population in Germany.