Only a fraction of suspected coronavirus cases have been detected in South Asia's two most populous nations
50 millionThe virus, brought on ships by infected people, spread like wildfire as ill-prepared doctors in the then-British colony struggled to contain it.
say that many cases have gone unreported in the country of 1.3 billion and there could be far more community spread. potential cases of coronavirus. Guleria says that previously officials felt that screening for Covid-19 wasn’t turning up enough clusters of acute respiratory cases to warrant an increase in tests.
Overall, India’s health spending as a percentage of GDP is a meagre 1.3 percent and it has only 0.5 hospital beds per 1000 people. “We are not prepared. Our hospitals are not prepared to handle normal diseases so you can imagine what can happen with this,” says Dr Altaf Ahmed, a Lahore-based infectious disease expert.
Nevertheless, the provincial Sindh government has enforced strict measures, deploying police and soldiers to keep markets shut and people inside their homes.
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