[Shanksta]

Tamilnadu shuts borders till March 31.

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The Tamil Nadu government has taken another important decision today to take various precautions to prevent coronavirus infection.
Accordingly, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palanisamy today announced that the boundaries of Tamil Nadu will be closed from tomorrow till 31st of this month.

Only vehicles that transport essential commodities, including milk, gasoline, diesel, vegetables and pharmaceuticals, will be permitted. The driver and cleaner on the specified vehicles will be tested for Corona.

The government of Tamil Nadu has also stated that only a limited number of government buses, ambulances and private buses are allowed on certain days.

[vibbs]

Originally Posted by volkman10

Coronavirus pandemic: India count: 257 cases. Active could be still at 196.


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It is 5 deaths now, is it not? The Italian patient died.


Meanwhile another bad day for us in Singapore. 40 new cases, mostly imported. Stricter social distancing to be enforced.

[jayguar]

The mohfw site may not be the latest for India. The worldwide tracker from John Hopkins link in the OP shows 244 total cases out of which 219 are active and 5 deaths.

Edit: I had been following another link, worldometers for live data.

[CarJunki]

Originally Posted by vibbs

It is 5 deaths now, is it not? The Italian patient died.

The person was cured of COVID-19 and discharged 3-4 days back. The death happened due to cardiac failure (as per some media reports).

[Car Architect]

Situation is getting Very very worse in Italy. 627 additional deaths and close to 6000 new confirmed cases today alone.

Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[splitsecond]

Originally Posted by Car Architect

Situation is getting Very very worse in Italy. 627 additional deaths and close to 6000 new confirmed cases today alone.

Edit: It's 15000 + Cases now.

Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Italy lockdown is a failure as per this report
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Anonymous data mapping phone users’ locations provided by Vodafone and TIM – two leading phone service providers in Italy – revealed that around 40 per cent of residents in the northern Lombardy region were still moving beyond the proximity of their homes.

I have asked this question earlier in this thread, why this cold approch to this pandemic by european countries? Look at UK, eventhough they have many cases, cinemas, pubs, bars, hotels are still open as if nothing has happened

[ankan.m.blr]

Guys, today there is a steep upsurge of numbers of infected person in India. Stage 3 is in motion now?

[adimicra]

^^

This is really baffling. When there are 1000's of people dying, people are still defying govt orders and roaming around !! The UK has just asked closure of public places today where they are already in trouble. Even the US seems to be slow in responding as schools were still open when I spoke to my colleague a few days back. I don't know what is wrong with developed countries.

I think Indian govt has been much more proactive but with the cases in India increasing rapidly, I think a couple of weeks of total lockdown is needed. Better to be safe than sorry.

[Torq]

Originally Posted by ankan.m.blr

Guys, today there is a steep upsurge of numbers of infected person in India. Stage 3 is in motion now?

Based on this we are actually at phase 4 right now.

However, to my less learned mind who couldn't grasp even community medicine in 3rd year, experts may guide more about our understanding of the same.

[vivek95]

For Mumbai what is really worrisome is this Ulhasnagar news

49 year old female tested positive for COVID-19. She had travelled from Dubai to Mumbai on 4th March and attended a Satsang at Ulhasnagar on 8th March where in 1500 devotees had gathered. She tested positive yesterday.

[SilentEngine]

Originally Posted by mvadg

Considering that we have dedicated ministries that monitor events across the world, possible threats from enemies, threats from natural disasters and the like, my question is, what delayed decisive action? What failed and why? Same question for all the countries in the world.

Good question, but the thing is, it's easy to look back in hindsight and question certain actions or lack of them. What we are facing now is unprecedented. This is unlike other situations like war or natural disasters. People only plan for things that they have encountered before. No living human being has any experience of facing a challenge like this ever, certainly not in this scale.

[JS Kwt]

Originally Posted by jayguar

The worldwide tracker from John Hopkins link in the OP shows 244 total cases ...

Edit: I had been following another link, worldometers for live data.

Worldometers is quite accurate- with easy display and news links of country wise updates

But this Coronavirus Live Stream is Real time

https://youtu.be/qgylp3Td1Bw

Found this site the most accurate

[jayguar]

Originally Posted by SilentEngine

Good question, but the thing is, it's easy to look back in hindsight and question certain actions or lack of them. What we are facing now is unprecedented. This is unlike other situations like war or natural disasters. People only plan for things that they have encountered before. No living human being has any experience of facing a challenge like this ever, certainly not in this scale.

No living human being has experienced this before but definitely should have planned for the worst when cases started spreading outside of China. It was more of a lethargic attitude and acted only when they started experiencing the bad which has now turned to worse and probably the worst is yet to come. To add to that, many educated people are not adhering to the prevention and are not worried even a little bit on theirs or their families' safety.

[WindRide]

To make things worse, new breaking data seems to indicate not all COVID-19 affected patients return positive for a nasal/throat test, only a stool test shows positive.

https://twitter.com/BrennanSpiegel/s...67681777778688

[digitalnirvana]

Originally Posted by Jaggu

This may not be an entirely true news, she is infected yes. But there was no self quarantine notification when she arrived on Mar 9th from UK and did regular checks then that were in place.

She stays at the same apartment complex as my cousin sister and I got a forwarded video of her being taken away in an ambulance. Word on the street is she did violate self isolation and had attended multiple parties and also sang there. A FIR has been filed against her.