Terrorist Modi's "Tattistan"....is hiding the real COVID-19 infected numbers.
The Guardian:
India coronavirus cases rise amid fears true figure much higher
Low levels of testing and poor access to healthcare means many people not reporting
Doubt has been cast over India’s claim that it has no community transmission of coronavirus after the country reported its biggest daily rise in the number of cases so far.
In another worrying development, the first coronavirus case was also confirmed in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, which is India’s & Asia's largest and is home to almost one million people living in close, unsanitary quarters. The 56-year-old man was taken to Sion hospital and eight of his family members placed into quarantine.
India spends only about 1.3% of its GDP on public health, among the lowest in the world. Only 67,951 tests have been done so far and there are just 61 government-approved testing centres across the country.
Doctors in hospitals across India said the lack of proper protective equipment available for medical staff, including basic masks, meant that patients presenting with coronavirus symptoms were being turned away. Doctors in Kolkata described how they were made to wear plastic raincoats to examine possible coronavirus patients, while a doctor in a Delhi hospital resorted to wearing a motorcycle helmet to cover his face.
“Every day thousands of people gather here, seeking treatment for many infectious diseases. Last week, I noticed, hundreds of people, with many coughing, having fever and breathing problems stood on a queue waiting for their turn to be examined by us,” he said.
“They stood in the queue for hours and many of them were coughing and sneezing. I have every reason to believe many were carriers of COVID-19 who spread the infection to people in that same line, who in turn are now spreading it in the community … hundred or thousand times more people should be tested for the infection. Otherwise, the coronavirus situation will turn unmanageable.”
A recent report, jointly published by three American universities and the Delhi School of Economics, claimed that India could have as many as 1.3 million coronavirus infections by mid-May.