Experts fear India has more than half a billion Covid cases, 30 times higher than reported

[marmar]

(CNN) India, home to the world's worst ongoing coronavirus outbreak, has reported more than 17.6 million cases since the pandemic began last year.

But the real number, experts fear, could be up to 30 times higher -- meaning more than half a billion cases.

Health workers and scientists in India have long warned that Covid-19 infections and related deaths are significantly underreported for several reasons, including poor infrastructure, human error, and low testing levels.

Some things have changed since then -- testing has greatly increased in the wake of the first wave, for instance. But still, the true extent of the second wave now ravaging India is likely much worse than official numbers suggest. ............(more)

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/27/india/india-covid-underreporting-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

[dutch777]

1. They are 1/3 of the way to herd immunity...at a terrible cost. Problem is in the meantime they are

a giant human petri dish to mutate more infectious and deadlier strains of Covid that could blow by all the current vaccines. Brazil is too. It is nice of us to send them 60 million doses of vaccine but they need so much more.

[empedocles]

2. Staggering