Peaking: On India’s coronavirus tally (The Hindu)

Mains Paper 2: Health
Prelims level: Novel coronavirus case
Mains level: Scenario of novel coronavirus case in India

Context:

• In 106 days since the first laboratory-confirmed novel coronavirus case was reported on January 30, India surpassed China’s tally of 84,038.
• As on May 15, India had over 85,500 cases and the death toll stood at 2,752, as against 4,633 in China.

Rising number of cases:

• There are only 10 other countries that have more cases than India.
• The toll in the U.S. alone went past the total number of cases in China, while the total case load crossed 1.4 million.
• On March 18, when China reported zero ...................................

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Doubling of the cases:

• That even during the lockdown India has witnessed the shortest time, of 13 days, for cases to double compared with 14 other countries that have the most cases reported is testimony to the wide spread of the virus.
• A reason for this could be that cases in other countries, barring Russia and Brazil, have already peaked or are about to.
• Unfortunately, even as the number ............................................................

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Way ahead:

• Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal have reported high case positivity.
• This could either be due to good surveillance, which is unlikely, or wider spread of the virus in the community, at least in specific regions.
• If the latter be the case, India can expect huge numbers to be reported in the coming weeks. No State, including Kerala, can thus be complacent.

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Prelims Questions:

Q1. With reference to the ‘Mission Sagar’, consider the following statements:
1. The deployment is in consonance with the Prime Ministers vision of Security and Growth for All in the Region ‘SAGAR’.
2. This is the first time that a single assistance mission is covering all island countries of the western Indian Ocean in one go except Sri Lanka.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

Answer:

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Mains Questions:
Q1. Despite the extended ..................................................