Countries which experienced an earlier surge than India have reported even higher recovery rates than ours,” he said, pointed to Denmark’s recovery rate of 95 per cent, Italy’s 84 per cent and France’s 72 per cent.Reddy, former head of the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), said the earlier “optimism that the gains of the first two stages of the lockdown would be consolidated quickly was ‘belied’ in the later stages of a relaxed lockdown”.“Predicting the peak of the infection depends on whether we are talking of daily case counts or daily deaths.
“With low levels of contact tracing in many cities, the link to a contact remains a tenuous surmise.”If data from antibody-based serological surveillance conducted in May was also available for urban containment zones, apart from the released district data, he said “we could have gained insights into the extent of spread in the cities”.You are reading this because you value good, intelligent and objective journalism. Our stellar coronavirus coverage is a good example. K Srinath Reddy. "So, our duty is to try and protect those places and slow down the spread there as well as quickly put down the infection in some of the urban areas where we are seeing high intensity of infections," Reddy, who formerly headed the Department of Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),told PTI.With 18,522 people testing positive for coronavirus in a single day, India's COVID-19 tally climbed to 5,66,840 on Tuesday while the toll rose to 16,893 with 418 new fatalities, the Union Health Ministry data said.He said with testing numbers increasing and testing criteria changing, it's difficult to say in relative terms when COVID-19 will peak and when it will come down. "We should be looking at it as multiple, simultaneous and sequential epidemic. Because the advertising market is broken too.If you think we deserve your support, do join us in this endeavour to strengthen fair, free, courageous, and questioning journalism, please click on the link below. Copyright © 2020 Printline Media Pvt. It will take just a few seconds of your time. Professor K Srinath Reddy said with testing numbers increasing and testing criteria changing, it's difficult to say in relative terms when COVID-19 will peak and when it will come down. While rising case numbers are certainly a matter of concern, time trends are difficult to interpret when testing criteria and test numbers vary between time periods,” he said, emphasising “it is better to track deaths, which offer a more uniform basis for comparison over time”.Even if deaths are undercounted, Reddy added, “it is unlikely that there would be marked time to time variations in the degree of undercounting. 9 Less than a minute. "So, you can't say it's peaking all over India at the same time. They do not represent the views or opinions of newindianexpress.com or its staff, nor do they represent the views or opinions of The New Indian Express Group, or any entity of, or affiliated with, The New Indian Express Group. But when this rate starts coming down consistently over 10 days, we can be confident of a turnaround,” he said.With present trends, Reddy highlighted, “the descent of daily death count may be a few months away”.“Ultimately, after the pandemic ends, its impact and our ability to blunt it will be judged only on one criterion — how many persons died in India due to Covid-19?” he said.Reddy clarified that there was no doubt that the two-month lockdown helped slow down Covid-19 transmission, “when it was complete and stringently enforced in the initial phases”.However, he added: “In this relay race, we ran well in the first leg, faltered in the next, and are now trying to catch up with the virus, which has sped past.”With the “progressive relaxation of the lockdown”, Reddy said, the virus found it easier to spread.
OMMCOM NEWS Send an email March 6, 2017. We cannot compare the present state of Delhi to a village in Jharkhand or Chhattisgarh,” he said. COVID-19 crisis: Need social distancing for one year, says PHFI’s Dr K Srinath Reddy. So, the time trends of deaths can be studied with greater confidence than case counts”.“Even now, deaths per million population in India are much lower than in most countries — 12 per million. "The views expressed in comments published on newindianexpress.com are those of the comment writers alone. But a big one is that good people are not yet paying enough for good journalism.We have a newsroom filled with talented young reporters. And we aren’t even three yet. Tuesday, 11 August, 2020 For us to continue bringing quality journalism, we need readers like you to pay for it. We pay them fairly and on time even in this difficult period. (Photo | PTI)BENGALURU: Only when the daily death toll due to coronavirus comes down consistently can one say for sure that COVID-19 has peaked in India, a prominent public health care expert said on Tuesday.President of Public Health Foundation of India Prof. K Srinath Reddy said the country is seeing greater spread of the virus because of increase in testing rates, and mobility and mixing of people post the COVID-19-induced lockdown.The explosion in cases is seen mostly in big cities and in surrounding districts, while large parts of India are still not showing high intensity of infection, according to him. At ThePrint, we invest in quality journalists. By: Sarthak Ray | Published: April 21, 2020 3:45 AM. Early discharge policy, introduced recently, has also boosted the estimated recovery rate,” Reddy told ThePrint.His organisation, PHFI, is a public-private initiative for strengthening training, research and policy development in the area of public health. A medical doctor with specializations in cardiology and epidemiology, Dr. Reddy headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) until recently. It is likely that you are also hearing of the brutal layoffs and pay-cuts hitting the industry.
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