Coronavirus Latest Updates

Corona virus - Latest Updates

As we all know that the India extend its nationwide corona virus lock-down till 3rd May 2020.

In this post we find that in which other countries are extending lockdowns or removing lockdowns , which countries are successful and which countries are failing.

Ss of 15 april 2020, there are more than 2,000,000 + cases , 125,000+ deaths and 485,000 + recoveries .

Content -

• Italy
• Russia
• Taiwan
• What Taiwan Did
• South Korea
• What Is The Reason ???
• Germany
• Why Was Germany Successful?
• European Countries
• USA
• India

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The graph of increase in the number of cases are exponential but now this graph is becoming linear.

Italy

At one time italy is the worst effected country from corona virus.

now you can see the graph in which we can see per day new cases we see that this graph is falling slowly.

As in this graph on 19 march the graph has reached his peak and from then the graph is going down.

but if we see the graph of active cases it also started peaking.

so perhaps, now onward, we would get to hear good news from italy.

The number of cases of corona virus would decrease and that is how the govt is reacting.

The lockdown has been eased to some extent already - children's cloth stores, stationary shops, book shops these are the first shops that have got permission from the government to open. thay have already reopened.

Russia

Russia was amongst those countries where the effect of corona virus became perceptible quite late but the situation there,

today is that an exponential growth of cases of corona virus can be seen. 

Putin has admitted that things are going from bad to worse.

A lot of pressure is being exerted on the healthcare system and there are long queues of ambulances. 

The lockdown is being tightened because putin has said that there is a need to take more stringent steps now if they want to control this virus.

The residents would now have to apply for permission online if they wish to step out of their homes.

Taiwan

Taiwan along with south korea and germany i'd consider them as top three most successful countries who have been successful in the war against corona virus.

let us first take the example of taiwan - 

first of all, taiwan is neighbour of china

when the situation of the corona virus started in china, then it ought to have had a detrimental effect on taiwan because it is a neighbouring country but as of today.

there have been only around 390 cases in taiwan and only 6 people are died although the firstcase in taiwan was reported a hindred days prior.

whats even more amazing is that there has been no lockdown in taiwan.

restaurants, bars, schools, universities- all are open there. so you'd ask what taiwan did that it became so successful in containing the coronavirus without lockdown.

what taiwan did?

first and foremost, 

taiwan reacted swiftly when there was no announcement of a lockdown even in wuhan, right on december 31 st, 

• when it was revealed that an unknown virus has emerged in wuhan Taiwan started screening the passengers that were coming via wuhan in flights. very soon after, 

• taiwan announced a complete flight ban of the incoming passengers from china on february 6th itself having enforced a travel ban so early very few of the corona virus cases managed to come into taiwan from outside due to this reason, the total number of cases remained very few in taiwan and as for the cases that did arise.

• their testing was done in a very proper manner and their contact tracing was done in order to ensure that the virus did not spread within the country.

south korea 

south korea is also being viewed as a successful example, albeit from a different aspect.

The total number of cases in south korea were not as few as the number in taiwan.

they did rise exponentially at one point of time, 

but they reached the peak quite quickly and now if you look at the active cases in the graph you will notice that they are falling rapidly so basically , 

south korea was successful in flattening the curve and no major lockdowns were announced here as well .

infact, today, even elections are being conducted  in south korea whereas the other countries have cancelled it because when the people would came out to vote and stand in queues, 

the chances of infection would increase but elections are being conducted in south korea and people are wearing masks while coming to vote so the govt here is that confident that the virus is not going to spread further.

what is the reason behind this ?

They had an impressive contract tracing system.

south korea stated that all the incoming flight passengers from abroad were asked to install an app in their smartphones. 

In this app they had to fill in their symptoms in the app, if they had any .

if one did have symptoms of the corona virus and they filled it in the app, 

then the app would tell you whether it is suspected that you have the corona virus or not based on the symptoms.

So if you are a suspected case of the corona virus,

then the app would dig out your location data from your phone and would note all the places you're travelling to and when And a lot of common public would have also installed the app in South Korea and each time that you travel wherever,

if you come within a radius of 100 meters of another person,

 then upon noticing the location of you and the other person, 

the app would alert you

Furthermore, 

the government regularly publishes information on its website that the people that are suspected to have corona virus, according to the app,

and all the places they visited- the names of those restaurants, bars and the names of all those places

They would put all the information on the website

so that all the public would be able to see which places they should avoid going to

because a suspected corona virus case has been to those areas

The rest of the people would remain alert and would avoid going to those areas

Now it is very important here that they do not publish the names of the suspected corona virus cases

and the South Korean government is not doing this (that is, publishing the names)k, otherwise,

they would have to face harassment. If they are a suspected case of the corona virus,

least the people might resort to physical violence or might begin to exclude them from the society

so the government will never publish names

They would only publish the information of the places where they have been to

This would help identify the locations that need to be avoided

But despite that, there is an obvious privacy concern here

that the government is constantly tracking your location

Furthermore, it has also been reported in the news that

the government has collected credit card records, security camera footage and GPS data

from cars and cellphones

The government collected data from all these different sources and then did a contact tracing

Mass messaging has also been made use of

Phone numbers of everyone has been collected from all the telecom operators

in order to send emergency alerts to them on the phones

And so many emergency alerts are being sent that the people there have started to complain that

they are fed up with the constant buzzing of their phones

And this is a valid concern too, because

if the emergency alert goes off once or twice in a day, then it is fine, but

if emergency alerts are being sent in someone's phone 10-15 times,

then the people will stop reading it

Drawing inspiration from this, the Indian government, too, has launched its own app- Aarogya Setu

which was seen being promoted by Prime Minister Modi and other people in the government

The app has a similar concept. You can download it and take a self assessment quiz

You'll fill in your symptoms and on the basis of that, the app will tell you whether you are a suspected case or not

and if the rest of the public has also downloaded this app,

and if you come into the vicinity of someone else,

then this app would alert you that you are in the vicinity of a suspected case

But unlike in other developed countries, there are no data protection laws in India

so there is no guarantee of what the government will do with this data

and whether or not the government will misuse this data after the end of the corona virus situation

Germany

Germany is another successful example where the number of active cases are decreasing

But unlike in Taiwan, a lockdown was enforced here

and unlike in South Korea, no app was made use of here for contact tracing

So why was Germany successful?

• Because the government there was immensely efficient

• Testing was conducted on a tremendous scale

• And the healthcare system and infrastructure was exceptional

If some one did contract the infection, then the death rate in Germany was also very low

Infact, a research has labelled Germany as the second safest country with regards to the corona virus matter

This research has placed Israel at number 1 and South Korea at number 3

Australia at number 4 and China at number 5.

That is, if you're in these countries at present, then you have the brightest chances of escaping the corona virus

not only getting saved after getting infected, but also from getting infected in the first place

But Germany is not the only European country where the number of active cases are falling rapidly

Along with it, number of active cases have been falling in Denmark, Austria, Poland and Czech Republic

so all these countries have already begun withdrawing lock downs

Denmark has become the first European country that has reopened schools after the lock down

The lockdowns in Austria have been withdrawn to some extent

It will be completely revoked from the 1st of May

The number of cases have been on the rise in UK too- but a very interesting thing happened there

A fake news and a rumor spread around

that the corona virus is becoming more widespread due to the 5G mobile towers

And some people, considering this fake news to be true, started vandalizing these mobile towers

And a lot of cases were heard where the 5G mobile towers were vandalized

And not only in the UK, such cases were also reported from Netherlands, Ireland and New Zealand

where 5G towers were vandalized and set son fire

And some dimwits started vandalizing not only 5G towers, but 4G towers too

It is quite surprising because I find it difficult to believe that such things can happen in these countries too

where fake news is spread through rumors

and people start destroying property                                                  USA - United States

The USA is the world's worst affected country from corona virus

As of 15th April, there have been more than 5 lakh cases of corona virus

and there have been more than 23,000 deaths

Why did it so happen has been explained by me in great detail of My US-China Conflict Post You Can See From Home Page 

but,      cases are still rising exponentially.                                              India 

                                          And finally, talking about India- then you can take a look at the chart of daily corona virus cases

and here you can see the chart of the number of active cases                                                                                                                  

On the basis of this, you can see that this chart has been rising rapidly

But honestly speaking, it is very early to say right now whether India has been successful or if it is failing

because although the number of cases are on the rise, the total number of corona virus cases

are still very few in comparison with the other countries

So India has been successful in some sense

But the rate at which they are increasing,

it can only be said later whether India has been successful or not

But I'd like to show you an interesting graph                                                                                                                             

This is the graph of those countries that declared a lock down before 1000 cases

And this graph denotes that after declaration of the lock down,

what percentage of increase or decrease has been registered in the total number of corona virus cases

As you can see, a decrease has been registered in these countries a week later since the declaration of the lockdown

and a further decrease was noticed in the number of cases in most of these countries two weeks later

but India was one of the only exception where the number of cases increases

The highest decrease can be seen in Denmark

which leads on to say that its lockdown has been the most successful

After that, the lockdowns of Portugal, Norway, Austria have all been very successful

But the number of cases in India increased in the second week

In my opinion, this does not denote that the lockdown has been unsuccessful

This shows that we had not done enough testing by the first week

for us to know how many actual cases of corona virus already existed

So gradually, more and more cases are emerging upon further testing

What effect is corona virus having on people will be discussed in the next blog

where I will tell you what the economic impact of corona virus has been

But for now, I would just want to say do not worry if your

money invested in mutual funds and stock markets are going down

This is a very common thing during recession. But upon looking historically,

whenever there has been a recession, the market has always boomed after the recession ended

So do not worry about that. It is a very bad time to withdraw money but

it is a very good time to invest money

If you have an SIP and you want to invest in mutual funds,

you will get a huge advantage here if you invest at a time when the market is at its rock bottom

And this is what has happened historically

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and like I said, we will talk about the economic impact in the next blog

I had talked about the environmental impact in the previous blog.