Niuniu beat the blackboard: market analysis believes that the decline in the number of new confirmed cases on the 17th is more due to the decline in the number of people tested over the weekend, and it is too early to say whether the epidemic in India has peaked.
The COVID-19 epidemic in India appears to be showing signs of easing: the number of new people a day has fallen below 300000, but the daily death toll is still close to an all-time high.
According to data released by the Indian Ministry of Health on the 17th, in the past 24 hours, there were 281386 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in India, with a total of 24965463 confirmed cases in a single day, and 4106 new deaths, still maintaining the daily high of 4000, while the cumulative number of deaths climbed to 274390.
The number of new confirmed cases in a single day in India exceeded 300000 for the first time on April 22, and exceeded 400000 for several consecutive days in May.
Although the number of new confirmed cases in India has gradually declined in the past few days, some analysts believe thatThe drop in the number of new confirmed cases on the 17th was more due to a decline in the number of tests just over the weekend.More than 1.5 million people were tested in India on the 16th, down about 300000 from more than 1.8 million the day before, according to official data.
Market analysts believe that it is still too early to say whether the epidemic in India has peaked. Although the number of new infections has dropped somewhat from its peak, the rate of decline in new cases may be very slow. Given the current low vaccination rate in India (only 182 million of a population of 1.4 billion have been vaccinated), the future of the epidemic remains uncertain.
The variety of novel coronavirus in India also tends to spread all over the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) said this week that the accelerated spread of the COVID-19 variant B.1.617 in India had spread to 44 countries and regions around the world, including Hong Kong, China, Belgium, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, the United States and Australia.
Some scientists are worried that as the mutated strain from India spreads to other countries, the new virus mutation may become the next tipping point of the COVID-19 epidemic, which may extend the COVID-19 epidemic to the whole world.
Edit / emily