Wuhan Coronavirus Thread

[Why so serious?]

Testing happens only on ICMR guidelines, they are testing more because the cases are increasing rapidly. There is clearly some community transmission in Mumbai and maybe Delhi (don't know about Rajasthan). The high testing is warranted.

True about testing but not entirely atleast for Mumbai. Random testing has started in Mumbai in the containment zones and slums.
Today's spike in Mumbai was due to emerging new hot spot of Govandi slums which came to light due to a testing camp organised.

Community spreading has definitely started in Mumbai , don't know about others.

 

[Indrajit]

Starting domestic routes between green zones should not pose risk but Delhi and Mumbai strictly be kept out because of high number of cases.

International flights ban should be extended .

We may actually need a couple of weeks to know that the green zones are stable. There's a lot of pressure on officials in green zones to maintain that status. We shouldn't be too hasty.

To your banned cities of Mumbai and Delhi, I would think it would be dicey anywhere from Maharashtra. I also wouldn't want any flight out of Bengal, no matter how green the local authorities say it is.

 

[captscooby81]

I would call it Cluster transmission than community as of now .

T There is clearly some community transmission in Mumbai and maybe Delhi (don't know about Rajasthan).

 

[Indrajit]

Starting domestic routes between green zones should not pose risk but Delhi and Mumbai strictly be kept out because of high number of cases.

International flights ban should be extended .

I think we shouldn't be in any hurry to restart flights, the next step should be to allow intra district movement in green zones and some economic activity. Flights should only come after a few weeks. Pointless and high risk now.

 

[Satchidananda369]

I vaguely remember reading some where that chloriquine is indeed used or raditation treatment...

What the world needs is choloruine memes

Wonder Drug Chloroquine helps fight Cancer Too and killed cancer cells in 5 out of 7 cancer patients!

Now we know why Trump would regularly talk about it in an election year unless he was shown clear evidence of its multiple healing qualities..
1. Likely Corona virus covid-19 cure
2. Malaria cure
3. Amoebiasis cure
4. Q fever cure
5. Cancer treatment
6. Rheumatoid arthritis treatment
7. Treatment for Radiation Poisoning

Indian Patriot (@worldpatriot17) Tweeted:
@mize_gene @ericbolling @realDonaldTrump Also - this will start the downfall of Big Pharma. https://t.co/Dy3sD02xa2

 

[Indrajit]

I would call it Cluster transmission than community as of now .

Yes, hopefully, it's just limited community transmission within the cluster but my confidence in the state government to handle it is much lower now than before. Somebody from Mumbai may have a better perspective on this but authorities there lost the plot very early on. We can hope that they are more focussed now and we get lucky.

 

[Indrajit]

Yup my friend in chennai who works for Bharat Benz said his company has asked employee to report for duty from wednesday to restart the production . Limited employees per shift not at full fledged level

The odd thing is regardless of TN's huge number, I actually think they are better placed to restart since their numbers have been skewed completely by the Tablighi chaps and is insignificant otherwise. If one were to take a neutral view, TN has been a standout performer handling matters professionally without any of the PR drama of a certain neighbouring state.

 

[vampyrbladez]

China-led stock transactions will be watched by SEBI

PALAK SHAH Mumbai | Updated on April 13, 2020 Published on April 13, 2020

Experts voice fears after Chinese bank hikes stake in HDFC


Market regulator SEBI will be closely monitoring share transactions by Chinese companies and banks, especially in times when stock valuations are at historical lows, sources said.

This is after People’s Bank of China’s (PBC) move to hike its stake in HDFC to 1.01 per cent, during the March quarter, from 0.8 per cent earlier.

A report suggested the Finance Ministry was ruffled as regulators had not raised flags when PBC was buying shares over the past few weeks. PBC now holds 1.74 crore HDFC shares. HDFC said PBC earlier held a 0.8 per cent stake. Shareholding below 1 per cent in not disclosed by exchanges publicly. It is not clear when PBC’s stake reached 0.8 per cent.

Transactions by Chinese institutions have come under global scrutiny as assets currently may not be reflecting their intrinsic value due to the coronavirus-led slowdown. There are fears over China buying assets cheap or at low valuations, market experts told BusinessLine. The US, Japan and Australia have issued restrictions against Chinese companies buying assets currently. Media reports suggest Japan is ready to pay its corporations to move out of China.

Shankar Sharma, Co-founder and Vice-Chairman, First Global, says PBC’s move should be taken seriously. “Even the US is considering restricting investments and listing by Chinese companies, then why not India,” Sharma said.

Deven Choksey, founder, MD, KR Choksey Investment Advisors, is of the view that China’s move to acquire key assets cheap requires thinking on asset protection norms.


Published on April 13, 2020

https://www.thehindubusinessline.co...-will-be-watched-by-sebi/article31333321.ece#

 

[captscooby81]

After MH , TN has the highest manufacturing contribution so its best to start the work in limited scale and see how the progress on new cases turn out in a week's time . TN did really well health minister himself is a doctor . Yup TBJ screwed it completely and pushed TN into top 3 list of cases . TN hospitals has 3600 ventilators so they can manage easily 1000+ critical wuhan virus cases as of now .

The odd thing is regardless of TN's huge number, I actually think they are better placed to restart since their numbers have been skewed completely by the Tablighi chaps and is insignificant otherwise. If one were to take a neutral view, TN has been a standout performer handling matters professionally without any of the PR drama of a certain neighbouring state.

 

[ezsasa]

After MH , TN has the highest manufacturing contribution so its best to start the work in limited scale and see how the progress on new cases turn out in a week's time . TN did really well health minister himself is a doctor . Yup TBJ screwed it completely and pushed TN into top 3 list of cases . TN hospitals has 3600 ventilators so they can manage easily 1000+ critical wuhan virus cases as of now .

all ventilators can't be reserved for current crisis alone, other patients exist too.

 

[Indrajit]

all ventilators can't be reserved for current crisis alone, other patients exist too.

Yes but it’s good to start off with a better number since we are only going to see 15-20% of cases requiring serious medical intervention. Some leeway there.

 

[Godhimself]

How true is this?.........


In the past 24hrs, #SouthKorea, #USA, #France, #Turkey, & even dysfunctional #Pakistan have increased #Testing numbers rapidly. #India's only testing 137 people per 1M pop. 3 days ago, it was at 121 tests per 1M pop.

 

[Niks_12]

Wonder Drug Chloroquine helps fight Cancer Too and killed cancer cells in 5 out of 7 cancer patients!

Now we know why Trump would regularly talk about it in an election year unless he was shown clear evidence of its multiple healing qualities..
1. Likely Corona virus covid-19 cure
2. Malaria cure
3. Amoebiasis cure
4. Q fever cure
5. Cancer treatment
6. Rheumatoid arthritis treatment
7. Treatment for Radiation Poisoning

However, it does have side effects and even doctors trying prophylaxis have died cos of overdoses / complications.
https://www.dicardiology.com/articl...eatment-brings-prolonged-qt-arrhythmia-issues

The prescription is better left to the doctors (cough cough and not Trump).

 

[Craigs]

How true is this?.........


In the past 24hrs, #SouthKorea, #USA, #France, #Turkey, & even dysfunctional #Pakistan have increased #Testing numbers rapidly. #India's only testing 137 people per 1M pop. 3 days ago, it was at 121 tests per 1M pop.

We have competent people to decide at what rate the testing should happen. All above countries mentioned are in community spread stage already.

 

[Craigs]

However, it does have side effects and even doctors trying prophylaxis have died cos of overdoses / complications.
https://www.dicardiology.com/articl...eatment-brings-prolonged-qt-arrhythmia-issues

The prescription is better left to the doctors (cough cough and not Trump).

if Trump hadn't surfaced it none of the big-pharma compromised doctors and media pundits would ever have even discussed it.

God forbid it works and sinks the market for patent protected shit and expensive ventilators.

 

[ezsasa]

How true is this?.........


In the past 24hrs, #SouthKorea, #USA, #France, #Turkey, & even dysfunctional #Pakistan have increased #Testing numbers rapidly. #India's only testing 137 people per 1M pop. 3 days ago, it was at 121 tests per 1M pop.

Next time you see such graphs, do take time to find out who made those.. in this case it is this chap..

 

[Assassin 2.0]

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[vampyrbladez]

How true is this?.........


In the past 24hrs, #SouthKorea, #USA, #France, #Turkey, & even dysfunctional #Pakistan have increased #Testing numbers rapidly. #India's only testing 137 people per 1M pop. 3 days ago, it was at 121 tests per 1M pop.

You're quoting a filthy Paki ******! Unless you're a sand ****** yourself, you won't believe this drivel!

Here is the official data.

https://www.aninews.in/news/nationa...ases-of-covid-19-in-india-icmr20200414021058/

https://www.aninews.in/news/nationa...ver-19-lakh-tests-for-covid-1920200412224643/

Thus India tested 21806 people on April 13, 2020 till 9 P.M.

 

[YagamiLight]

Guys, don't believe the fluff about tests per million. It is a useless metric to see how well a country is testing. India still has over 50% of its population in districts not even touched by the virus, so it's meaningless to think we should test everyone.


No country, not even South Korea is testing everyone. Even South Korea with it's high testing only tests 9 out of 1000 persons.


Far more useful metric is test positivity.

Indian test positivity so far is 4% while that of uk is 18% and that of USA is 16%. And this rate is going down. What it means is that India is testing 96 negatives for every 4 positives while USA is testing only 84 negatives for every 16 positives. This means that India for the given viral load/disease load is testing four times the number of people compared to the USA/UK.

And as we have raised the number of tests, the test positivity is steadily going down. It was 5% at the start of April and has now fallen to 3%. So we are actually testing more people for the disease load than western countries.

BTW, do you know that France and uk have asked their young corona patients to stay home rather than come tested for their disease in hospitals?

So don't get taken in by the fluff and bs the Western racist media scum and their sepoys in India are spreading about Indian testing
Indian testing rate has been fine and it is being increased as the demand rises. The Western filth will rather blame the low numbers in India on low tests per million, which is a useless term, than acknowledge that their white asses were incompetent in dealing with the virus compared to brown Indians.

Just to show how stupid tests per million is, here is an example- India has done 0 tests for ebola virus now which is lower than African countries even. Does that mean India has a poorer testing than African countries for the ebola? Of course not. India doesn't test for ebola as there is no need for it here. Similarly we aren't testing as many as Americans as there is no need for it as of yet.


BTW, Pakistan have tested 50000 and have found 5000 cases, test positivity of 10%. India has tested 200,000 people and have found 10000 cases, so India has tested four times the number are pakis while having only 2 times the case. So India is testing more for the given case load. Test positivity is a better indicator in this regard. So chill and trust our govt

 

[samsaptaka]

There you go...........

Didn't expect namo govt to be so dumb to order chinkie test kits ! Dammit they may be pre infected !

The odd thing is regardless of TN's huge number, I actually think they are better placed to restart since their numbers have been skewed completely by the Tablighi chaps and is insignificant otherwise. If one were to take a neutral view, TN has been a standout performer handling matters professionally without any of the PR drama of a certain neighbouring state.

Yeah right ! Like referring to Abdul TJ cases as "single source" ? Please.....