Please share this thread as much as you can:Surging infections signal it’s inevitable India will have world’s largest #COVID19 outbreak & arriving with a vengeance in vast hinterland & it seems inevitable India will at some point overtake the US to have the most cases globally. 
Mumbai:Novel coronavirus seemed like a distant problem in Boisar,a small factory town about two hours from Mumbai, until Daniel Tribhuvan died. 35-year-old tutor started feeling feverish in April, while bringing his father home from a chemotherapy in the Indian financial capital.
When a test confirmed Tribhuvan was infected, the local health system’s reaction was shambolic. After he checked into a public hospital,the first thing they did was try to pawn him off to a private facility in Mumbai. #COVID19 @MoHFW_INDIA
The ambulance turned around halfway when they discovered he couldn’t pay. Back at the public hospital, a doctor didn’t see him for three days, and when an elderly man occupying a bed nearby died, his body wasn’t collected for 12 hours.
@zeeshan_iyc @OfficeofUT @AUThackeray
@zeeshan_iyc @OfficeofUT @AUThackeray
He died on May 17, becoming Boisar’s first confirmed fatality from Covid-19. “I think he would have survived if the system was good,” Samuel Tribhuvan, Daniel’s older brother, said in a recent interview at Boisar’s local administrative office.
The place is inside a rundown building that also houses a liquor store and a portrait studio.
This is the worst place where we could get the coronavirus.” @mybmc
This is the worst place where we could get the coronavirus.” @mybmc
6 mnths after the start of the pandemic as the developed world tries to restore some semblance of normalcy the virus is arriving with a vengeance in India’s vast hinterland, where 70% of its more than 1.3 billion citizens live. #coronavirus #covidupdates
The country is now adding more than 80,000 confirmed infections per day, with about 71,000 deaths so far, numbers experts say are likely being under-counted. @MoHFW_INDIA @drharshvardhan #COVID19
On Monday it galloped past Brazil to become the world’s second-biggest outbreak, a sobering preview of what could happen once the coronavirus spreads in earnest across other poor, densely populated places from Nigeria to Myanmar. @IYC @srinivasiyc
We are rn having such a vast reservoir of potential hosts and minimal ability to contain infections, it seems inevitable that India will at some point overtake the U.S. to have the most cases globally. @sagarikaghose @sadafjafar @srinivasiyc @Pawankhera @IYCGujarat @IYC
The result is likely to be a human & economic catastrophe,risking untold numbers of deaths & the reversal of years of rising incomes & living standards developments that helped lift millions of people from grinding poverty into something like the middle class. @mehartweets
Unroll @threadreaderapp
@sagarikaghose @sardesairajdeep @SaralPatel @sadafjafar @mehartweets @RanaAyyub @Pawankhera @aaron_mirza .
Mentioned for better read to this thread.
Mentioned for better read to this thread.
