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Covid-19 - Devastating Second Wave in India - Updates and Discussion

A record 47 passengers from a single fight tested positive for coronavirus.

Flight 6395 from Delhi to Hong Kong landed on 4 April and within two weeks almost 50 of its passengers had tested positive for the virus.

All passengers aboard the flight, operated by Indian airline Vistara, had given a negative test for Covid-19 within 72-hours of its departure - in keeping with Hong Kong's travel requirements.

However, according to the Independent, a test after the fight found 25 passengers positive with an additional 22 cases 12 days after arrival.

The record-breaking news comes after India has seen a sharp rise in cases since the beginning of the month while the country deals with a new more infectious strain of the virus.

Speaking to the Independent, Mumbai-based Dr Sharad Awachar said: "What we are dealing with here is a catastrophe.

"I have to look after 75 beds of an ICU daily and the input of patients is way more than the output. We are at full capacity."

The UK has now added India to its 'red list' of countries, meaning travel to the country is banned.

Announcing the decision Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: "After studying the data, and on a precautionary basis, we've made the difficult but vital decision to add India to the red list."

He added: "India is a country I know well and love. Between our two countries we have ties of friendship and family. I understand the impact of this decision but I hope the House will concur that we must act."

Hancock said most of the 103 cases of the new variant - officially known as B.1.617 - confirmed in the UK had been linked to international travel.

Christina Pagel, professor of operational research at UCL and member of Independent Sage, said: "We are not likely to get definitive evidence on B.1.617 for a few weeks given low sequencing, testing and vaccination rates in India and low case numbers here."

From 23 April almost all people who have travelled from India in the last 10 days will be refused entry, while British or Irish passport holders or residents will be allowed in but must quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said earlier today that he had cancelled a scheduled trip to India later this month.

 
There is no doubt, the number of dead are obviously more - seen way too many reports to call it a doubt anymore. Places like UP are severely under reporting cases and deaths.
 
At times this covid thing gives the vibes of someone pulling off a bloodless coup on a global level . All kinds of control freaks and psychopaths ranging from pharmaceuticals to political thugs seem involved in it . Middle class been rapidly downsized through different "sop's" and people are evebtaully being led to a state where the gov't militias gonna let loose upon the "violators " . sounds like social Darwinism is gaining momentum.



One can already see this archtype being implemented in small city states which if became a success could be implemented through out larger continents. Either submit every knitty gritty with the govt agencies to get your hourly freedom pass for doing the daily chores or do jail time

@Verve @Baba Google
 
Holly mother of Molly !!!! Entire flight? How worse is covid situation in India?

Announcing the decision Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: "After studying the data, and on a precautionary basis, we've made the difficult but vital decision to add India to the red list."

He added: "India is a country I know well and love. Between our two countries we have ties of friendship and family. I understand the impact of this decision but I hope the House will concur that we must act."

Why so apologetic? Was he apologetic when he put other countries in red list recently?
 
At times this covid thing gives the vibes of someone pulling off a bloodless coup on a global level . All kinds of control freaks and psychopaths ranging from pharmaceuticals to political thugs seem involved in it . Middle class been rapidly downsized through different "sop's" and people are evebtaully being led to a state where the gov't militias gonna let loose upon the "violators " . sounds like social Darwinism is gaining momentum.



One can already see this archtype being implemented in small city states which if became a success could be implemented through out larger continents. Either submit every knitty gritty with the govt agencies to get your hourly freedom pass for doing the daily chores or do jail time

@Verve @Baba Google
We are fighting something which we cannot see. World War 3? :rofl:

Honestly, this is a very serious threat to my social freedom. Yet I am part of it. I'll give you an example, as per some reports, "Original Sin" was a bitten apple, yet I need an iPhone. :D

Is k ilawa ab main kya kahoon yaaar. :rofl:
 
Not a single RSS pajeet in this topic to defend mata India.
Holly mother of Molly !!!! Entire flight? How worse is covid situation in India?



Why so apologetic? Was he apologetic when he put other countries in red list recently?

These Brits love polishing Hindustani boots.
 
People getting fake tests done to be able to fly. I thought rss Indians were "good tourists".
 
by Stefany Valderrama
Monday, April 19th 2021

New reports out of India are warning for a new double-mutated COVID-19 strain.

Researchers fear the more contagious and deadly strain could make efforts to contain the virus, including the vaccines, ineffective.

The more dominant mutant strains have been identified as the UK, South African and Brazil variants. Florida currently leads the nation with the most cases of the UK variant.

The newly identified 'Indian variant," a double mutated strain, is alarming doctors and researchers worldwide.

"You don’t usually see that," said Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Olayemi Osiyemi. "You see one mutation at a time and this virus has two mutations. So that may lead to more problems."

More than 100 cases have been reported in the UK. While in California, Stanford University researchers have identified five cases of a double-mutant strain.

"That mutation might cause it to spread faster. Make you sicker longer," said the lead researcher of the Palm Beach Research Center David Scott.

Experts say if someone contracts the Indian variant, the vaccine antibodies would have a hard time attaching and killing the variant.

"Or it may not bind at all and that will make it ineffective," Osiyemi added.

The ability to evade the immune system makes the mutant strain more transmissible and deadly.

"And that only makes sense. A mutation that survives, it just has to be a stronger virus," Scott told CBS12 News.

According to the CDC, there are no reported cases of the Indian variant in Florida., which reported more than 2.1 million cases of COVID-19 on Monday.

There you have it. Indian variant has the potential to render all vaccines ineffective.
 
A record 47 passengers from a single fight tested positive for coronavirus.

Flight 6395 from Delhi to Hong Kong landed on 4 April and within two weeks almost 50 of its passengers had tested positive for the virus.

All passengers aboard the flight, operated by Indian airline Vistara, had given a negative test for Covid-19 within 72-hours of its departure - in keeping with Hong Kong's travel requirements.

However, according to the Independent, a test after the fight found 25 passengers positive with an additional 22 cases 12 days after arrival.

The record-breaking news comes after India has seen a sharp rise in cases since the beginning of the month while the country deals with a new more infectious strain of the virus.

Speaking to the Independent, Mumbai-based Dr Sharad Awachar said: "What we are dealing with here is a catastrophe.

"I have to look after 75 beds of an ICU daily and the input of patients is way more than the output. We are at full capacity."

The UK has now added India to its 'red list' of countries, meaning travel to the country is banned.

Announcing the decision Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: "After studying the data, and on a precautionary basis, we've made the difficult but vital decision to add India to the red list."

He added: "India is a country I know well and love. Between our two countries we have ties of friendship and family. I understand the impact of this decision but I hope the House will concur that we must act."

Hancock said most of the 103 cases of the new variant - officially known as B.1.617 - confirmed in the UK had been linked to international travel.

Christina Pagel, professor of operational research at UCL and member of Independent Sage, said: "We are not likely to get definitive evidence on B.1.617 for a few weeks given low sequencing, testing and vaccination rates in India and low case numbers here."

From 23 April almost all people who have travelled from India in the last 10 days will be refused entry, while British or Irish passport holders or residents will be allowed in but must quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said earlier today that he had cancelled a scheduled trip to India later this month.

Mujhey toh vaccines main milawat lag rahi hai. Hor lawao teekey.:coffee:
 
LOL RSS pajeets think that vaccines will save them. The Ganges variant is deadly. Vaccines won't be effective.
 
Your frustration can not take your country out of red list.

LOL burn you little Ganges COVID creature. Your vaccine strategy won't work pajeet. The vaccine isn't effective against Kumbh mela virus.
 
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