Pakistan India Bangladesh worst pandemic hit due to ease in Lockdown

Central Asia worst affected from pandemic corona Covid-19 India Pakistan and Bangladesh record high numbers of attended patients of Covid-19. Intensive care unit (ICU) videos surfaces on social media from these regions and in some ICU’s beds were shared with two patients.

New Dehli, India has been recorded 11458 case crossed the 300,000 mark  in last 24 hours while western state of Maharashtra is 1st to record over 100,000 COVID-19 cases. While the death toll climbed to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities, according to the Health Ministry. It took just 10 days for India to reach the 300,000 mark from 200,000.

The total COVID-19 tally now stands at 308,993.

However, the government on Friday said the doubling time of coronavirus cases has improved from 15.4 days to 17.4 days.

Mumbai, the country’s commercial capital, has crossed the 55,000 mark and the death toll has reached 2,044. According to official data, the COVID-19 tally in Mumbai showed 55,451 cases and 2,044 deaths.

Meanwhile, the daily count of Covid-19 in the capital New Delhi reached 36,824 cases on Saturday. The number of deaths due to coronavirus has climbed to 1,214.

The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Sunday will make a decision on closing Delhi markets.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), out of a population of 1.35 billion, some 5.58 million samples in the country have been tested for COVID-19 so far.

KARACHI, Pakistan has another day with over 6,000 virus cases, 88 people die from novel coronavirus, bringing death toll to 2,551

Amid a record-breaking surge in the coronavirus pandemic, Pakistan, reported 6,472 new virus cases in the previous 24 hours, the highest single-day tally ever, the Health Ministry said.

The country’s total coronavirus cases have reached 132,399, of which nearly 50,000 were reported this month alone.

More than 40,247 patients have successfully recovered and been discharged from hospitals, according to the Health Ministry.

Some 839,019 people have so far been tested in the country of over 200 million people, with nearly 30,000 tests conducted over the past 24 hours.

The report showed that death ratio in confirmed cases also rose to 2%, from 1.7% earlier, while recoveries also climbed from 20% to 32%.

The data show that most deaths occurred in patients between the age of 60 and 69, at a rate of nearly 30%.
Health experts see the ever-rising caseload as a result of the lifting of a prolonged lockdown late last month, warning that the country’s already weak healthcare system could crash soon if the tally continues to surge at the current pace.

On May 9, the country’s total confirmed cases were 29,465, when Prime Minister Imran Khan announced an easing of the lockdown in phases, but just one month later it had reached nearly 126,000.

The World Health Organization has declared Pakistan the second-riskiest country after Afghanistan in terms of vulnerability to the pandemic.

In a letter to the government on Tuesday, the UN health agency suggested a two-week strict lockdown to contain the surging outbreak.

Responding to the suggestion, Zafar Mirza, the prime minister’s health advisor, said the country took the decisions in the best interests of the people.

Even Khan has ruled out a strict shutdown, saying a “smart lockdown” is the only solution for developing economies.

Dhakka Bangladesh, total fatalities from the virus now stand at 1,095, while infections have topped 81,523.

Bangladesh’s former Health Minister Mohammed Nasim died on Saturday of massive cardiac arrest in the capital Dhaka, where he had tested positive for coronavirus.

On Saturday Nasim, 72 and still a ruling party lawmaker, suffered a massive cardiac arrest and breathed his last, the hospital which treated him told the media.

The veteran politician tested positive for the virus and went into a deep coma after brain surgery and fought for his life for some two weeks in intensive care, the team that treated him said earlier.

He later tested negative during his treatment, it added.

A Foreign Ministry statement expressed deep mourning and condolences, and the president and prime minister also expressed grief at Nasim’s death.

He served as health minister for five years until 2019.