Habib Siddiqui

Location Confirmed Cases per 1M people Recovered Deaths Worldwide 856,955 121.62 177,917 42,089 United States 188,633 576.71 6,913 3,833 Italy 105,792 1,674.85 15,729 12,428 Spain 95,923 1,935.87 19,259 8,464 China 81,518 59.36 76,052 3,305 Germany 71,690 872.81 7,635 775 France 51,487 762.02 7,882 3,516 Iran 44,606 550.74 14,656 2,898 United Kingdom 25,150 387.56 135 1,808 Switzerland 16,597 2,446.13 1,823 432

W ith more than 63,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of March 30, Germany is one of the countries worst-affected by the pandemic , according to official statistics. But only 560 people known to be suffering from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus have died there, putting Germany’s case fatality rate at just 0.9%. That gives Germany one of the lowest rates in the world, making it an outlier compared to places like Italy, where 11.0% of confirmed patients have died from the disease, and even the U.S., which has a rate of 1.8%. According to experts, Germany’s case fatality rate is so low due to its widespread testing. “In some countries only very symptomatic cases are tested (e.g. in Italy) and in others a broader testing strategy is done (e.g. in Germany),” writes Dr. Dietrich Rothenbacher, the director of the Institute for Epidemiology at Ulm University in Germany, in an email to TIME. That means that while Germany is currently the country with the fifth-most infections ...

Activists are warning that conditions at crowded camps in southeast Bangladesh are leaving a million Rohingya refugees at risk of contracting the virus. 30 March 2020 13 hours ago Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh at risk of COVID ... - YouTube ▶ 5:45 more on Coronavirus pandemic Ford to produce 50,000 ventilators in 100 days with GE today Coronavirus updates: Italy reports 812 deaths in one day today Mexico president defends meeting mother of 'El Chapo' today Europe aims for quick economic response to coronavirus crisis today Activists are warning that conditions at crowded camps in southeast Bangladesh are leaving a million Rohingya refugees at risk of contracting the new coronavirus . Internet shutdown in and around the camps is making the situation even more dangerous. Al Jazeera's Mohammed Jamjoom reports.

To read the Al Jazeera report, click here :  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/kill-coronavirus-rohingya-india-200331035538875.html

By J ohn Quinley III  Since September 2019, Bangladesh has restricted mobile-phone operators to limit 3G and 4G services in Rohingya camps The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a “controllable pandemic.” To control the pandemic, WHO experts recommend “social distancing” to prevent the spread of the disease and thus “flatten the curve” of infection.  But social distancing isn't an option available to the more than one million Rohingya refugees living in densely populated camps in Bangladesh. The conditions of the camps and their tight living quarters cause these refugees to face a dangerously high risk of contracting and spreading the virus. To make matters worse, Rohingya are not allowed to leave the camps or move freely within them. The camps also lack access to sufficient water and sanitation—conditions that could worsen the spread of a communicable disease like the coronavirus, known as COVID-19.  Bangladesh has confirmed...

As of 7 p.m. EST, March 30, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 affected people has jumped to 163,000. If January 20 is believed to be the first known reported case of the virus, it seems that the infection is doubling every 3 days. See the table below: Day Total Infected 1 1 4 3 7 7 10 15 13 31 16 63 19 127 22 255 25 511 28 1023 31 2047 34 4095 37 8191 40 16383 43 32767 46 65535 49 131071 52 262143 55 524287 58 1048575 61 2097151 64 4194303 67 8388607 70 16777215

By Habib Siddiqui As of Saturday, March 28, 2020, nearly 650 thousand people worldwide are confirmed to have been infected by the Corona Virus (COVID-19). As I write around 4 p.m. EST (USA), more than thirty thousand deaths have been confirmed. The latest statistics show that the USA has superseded China as the epicenter of the virus with more than 116 thousand infected people. In any biological system, if you put a living organism into an environment where it can thrive, with unlimited resources and no predators or competitors, it will always grow in the same fashion: exponentially. In the case of the coronavirus COVID-19, exponential growth will occur in the disease rate in humans so long as: 1. there is at least one infected person in the population pool, 2. regular contact between infected and uninfected members of the population occurs, 3. and there are large numbers of uninfected potential hosts among the population. Thus, it is believed that over the n...

Ram Puniyani  The carnage or to put it more precisely the anti Muslim violence in Delhi (February-March 2020) has shaken us all. Analysts are burning midnight oil yet again to understand the deeper causative factors of the same. One of the neglected aspects of analysis of communal violence has been the one related to prevalent factor of Caste in Indian society. Caste is inherent in the scriptures called as Hindu scriptures; caste has been the rigid frame work of Hindu society, which has also penetrated into other religious communities in India. The deeper connection between Hindu nationalism or Hindutva and caste has been explored somewhat but not too many studies have taken up the relationship between the communal violence and caste in India. Suraj Yengde (IE, Delhi Pogrom is an attempt to Divert attention from Government’s Failures, March 8, 2020) makes some points on this issue. Yengde points out, “Many are still downplaying the Delhi riot as an affliction of Hindutva or H...