India braced for ‘tsunami’ of 300million coronavirus cases as 1.3billion are plunged into world's biggest lockdown
Paramedics, government municipal and police officials stand outside a private hotel in Bangalore as they plan the safe evacuation of a suspected positive COVID-19 coronavirus guestIndian firefighters spray disinfectants as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus on a street in GauhatiA man carrying vegetables is stopped by police at a barricade in Chennai, India, today as the 21-day nationwide lockdown of one fifth of the world's population gets under wayBut experts...
"So the disease is probably transmitting in the community and very quickly, remember every case generates two additional cases." If the same mathematical models used by the US or UK were applied on India, he said there could be least 300 million cases. Of these about four to five million could be severe and require intensive hospital care to save their lives.
But Dr Laxminarayan said: "India only has about 70 to 100,000 ICU beds in the entire country. That’s what worries me a lot."
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