How can India's reported cases and deaths be so low.

[Funtatlaguy]

They have over a billion people but are way down on the list.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[customerserviceguy]

1. Most of the developing world

has yet to be attacked by this virus, but that will change soon.

[stillcool]

2. same way as us...

don't test the living or the dead.

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[Brother Buzz]

3. India Ink

India has been stamping hands of people told to self-isolate with indelible ink

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-india-cases-quarantine-isolation-dates-symptoms-a9405851.html

[jimfields33]

4. The virus is so strange. It's bad in one country but not in the country next to it

For example, the United States is getting slammed but Mexico isn’t at all. Whereas Canada is better the us but not as good as Mexico. Who knows why.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. I suspect that air travel/vacationers have a big role in the spread of the CV. No wonder Hawaii ...

and other travel destinations are slamming the brakes on tourism. Viewed as a source of the CV (in some cases it's not, it is nationals coming back home from infected regions, e.g., in Hawaii.

That is why I disagree w/ letting the contaminated cruise ships unload their passengers in FL, w/o testing, to see who is infected or not, and let them out into the general population. They should have had better precautions in place, and slowly allowed the passengers to disembark, if tested negatively for the CV. Thanks FL!

[Baclava]

7. Not many Chinese tourists went to India in January? The virus needs hosts to travel.

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. It has to be because they aren't testing. I doubt seriously they don't have an explosion of cases.

From what I know of the country, and I admit it is limited and I have never been there, but India has an enormous population of very poor people who live in villages with little to no proper sanitation and barely any access to a modern hospital. Over a billion people in a land area a bit over one third the size of the lower 48.

I fear there will be millions who will die due to this that will never get counted, because they will stay at home and never get diagnosed.

The same for large swaths of the African Continent. Enormous numbers of desperately poor people with little to no access to proper health care. They'll get sick and they will stay where they live and die there.

We will never know the true numbers inside those two populations

[Happy Hoosier]

9. Straight-up lies. That's all. NT

[JCMach1]

10. I will wait and see, but there was a study done about BCG

Vaccine and the spread of the disease. If Africa and India manage to stave it off, it almost has to be that...

BCG giving some immunity