"Mini India"? Virus invades Everest base camp in Nepal

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The staff of a private clinic called "ciwec" in Kathmandu said that the patient tested positive for novel coronavirus after arriving at the clinic from the Everest base camp. Virus invades Everest base camp in Nepal) source: China News Network reporter: Bian Lei

Is the third wave of epidemic in India inevitable

Nearly half of the new cases in the world last week came from India

At present, there are more than 20.66 million confirmed cases of covid-19 in India. On May 5 local time, who released the weekly epidemiological report of COVID-19, saying that the number of newly confirmed cases and deaths in Southeast Asia increased significantly, with more than 90% coming from India; Last week, 46% of the new diagnoses and 25% of the new deaths in the world came from India

Recently, the Indian Center for cell and molecular biology found that a mutant virus n440k appeared in the country, with a mortality rate of at least 15 times that of the original virus. According to the analysis, although n440k is not the mainstream strain of the new epidemic, it is likely to lead to a surge in confirmed cases in Andhra Pradesh in the past few weeks. The study pointed out that n440k had appeared as early as during the first wave of the epidemic in India, which was stronger than the dual variant virus b.1.167 recently found in India, and its infectivity was 10 times that of the previous A2A virus

Vijay lakovan, the chief scientific adviser of the Indian government, said on the 5th that in view of the current high level of transmission of novel coronavirus in India, the outbreak of the third wave of the epidemic is inevitable, but it is not clear when the third wave of the epidemic will come. Lakovan stressed that the government should be prepared for a new round of outbreak

Foreign aid has not been distributed yet

According to the analysis of Indian media...

The epidemic in India has attracted global attention and helped, and aid materials from various countries have successively arrived there. However, according to local media reports, India's medical resources are still tight. Indian media pointed out that the reason believed to be that India did not plan how to allocate materials in advance, coupled with the complexity of the entire logistics process, so that materials could not be delivered to patients

Previously, the Indian government had issued a statement stressing that there was no delay, pointing out that nearly 4million supplies had been allocated to 38 medical institutions across the country. However, local governments such as Rajasthan are still complaining, and have not received the notice from the central government about when or how they will receive materials

Indian media pointed out that the central government had not finalized detailed logistics guidelines before receiving the assistance, and could only integrate various guidelines in real time. According to the Ministry of health, it took the authorities seven days from April 26 to formulate the standard operating procedures for the distribution of materials, and the specific delivery date was not given; Within seven days, 23000 people in India died of the epidemic

The variant virus found in India spread in Britain

Nepal becomes "mini India"

On the 5th local time, the foreign ministers' meeting of the group of seven ended in London, UK. During the summit, at least two members of the Indian delegation were diagnosed, which attracted much attention. Indian Foreign Minister sujiesheng later confirmed that because he may have been in contact with the diagnosed person, he changed to attend the meeting in the form of video for caution

At the same time, the variant virus b.1.617 found in India continued to spread in Britain and other countries. In London, England, as many as 10% of the newly confirmed cases in recent weeks are infected. The variant virus was found in India. The analysis indicates that this variant virus may become the main virus strain spreading in the UK

As the world focuses on the epidemic in India, the epidemic in Nepal, adjacent to India, is also deteriorating rapidly. Nepal reported 7660 new confirmed cases and 55 new deaths on the 4th, both of which once again set the highest record since the outbreak of the epidemic in the country. A Nepalese doctor said that Nepal was becoming a "mini India"

In addition, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), citing climbers from the Everest base camp in Nepal and the local government, more and more climbers have symptoms of covid-19, and the number of people who are positive for covid-19 is also increasing. Base camp officials said they had received 17 confirmed case reports from hospitals in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and some climbers had been sent there for treatment from the base camp and higher camps

The staff of a private clinic called "ciwec" in Kathmandu said that the patient tested positive for novel coronavirus after arriving at the clinic from the Everest base camp

(original title: "mini India"? Virus invades Everest base camp in Nepal) < /p > Source: China News Network reporter: Bian Lei