Pandemic Update, 19 September 2021

Last updated: ( 18 September, 16.00 GMT )

Total cases – 228 million+ ( 228,587,449)
Active Cases – 18 million + (18,690,261)
- (The number of Active cases is falling since September first week.)
New cases ( 24 hours) – 663,107
Deaths (As Reported) – 46 lakh+ ( 46,95,798) (2%)
New Death ( 24 hours) – 8,516
- ( The number of new deaths is falling since September first week.)

( Source: Worldometer)

Top Countries with the highest number new cases as reported on:

	COUNTRY	17.9.21	16.9.21
	World	565,036	581,966
1	USA	157,925	157,168
2	INDIA	35,367	34,649
3	Brazil	33,519	34,407
4	UK	32,415	26,556

WORLD FIGURES ARE CONSISTENTLY FALLING IN SEPTEMBER

KERALA

23,260

Ranks 5th in World

WORLD numbers of New Cases are CONSISTENTLY FALLING in SEPTEMBER 2021

2.1. vaccination

Strategy

Vaccination status as on : 17.09.2021

2.2. Five Countries, Two Strategy

Countries worldwide adopting one of the two strategies to tackle the pandemic.

Zero Covid Strategy:

Australia, New Zealand and China have adopted strict lock down to achieve Zero Covid target. China has been maintaining zero covid for more than a year, when it had a break through which was immediately contained. But the virus has broke out in its south east states and the nation has used harsh measures.

Australia has only 1000 cases for one year, but now has declared to move away from Zero Covid to 70%+ vaccination strategy. Only time will tell.

High Vaccination Strategy:

UK, Israel, Portugal, Singapore, Denmark have opened up after achieving 70%+ vaccine penetration. Cases that spiked initially but now has settled down to a pretty high base line. Delta variant was detected in UK in June. The case numbers climbed from 2500 in last may to 50,000 in July. Now it is back down to 32,000. Such a large number of daily new cases will overload the Health Care System. What will happen to all those non Covid cases. There won’t be beds left for heart stroke cases and other medical emergencies.

Where do we stand ?

Today’s Statistics

3. Our case numbers

(Detected In the last 24 hours)	New cases	Total /New death
India	19,880	450,408 / 248
Kerala	10,944	26,072 / 120
Maharashtra	2,620	1,39,470 / 59
Tamilnadu	1,359	35,754 / 20
Andhra Pradesh	693	14242 / 6
Odisha	526	8242 / 4

3.1. INDIA

( 18th September, 9 AM)

Total number of Confirmed cases in India : 33 million+ ( 3,34,15,889)
Number of new cases in India : 35,367
Total number of Death in India : 4,44,563 ( 1.33%)
Number of New Death in India : 285
Total Number of vaccine doses administered: 777 million.

3.2. ODISHA

( 18th September, 9 AM)

Total number of Confirmed cases: 10,19,621 ( 1 million+)
Number of new cases in Odisha : 695
Number aged between 0-18 years: 83 ( 12%)
Total number of Death in Odisha : 8,128
Number of New Death in Odisha : 6
Total Number of Tests done- 1,91,93,765
Test Positivity Rate- 5.31%
Total Number of Doses of Vaccine administered- 2,70,76,870
Total number of persons received at least One dose crosses 2 crores.

3.3. Bhubaneswar

( 18th September, 9 AM)

New Positive cases today: 218
Active cases on date: 3694
Total Number of Death till date: 1014
Total Number of Doses of Vaccine administered: 22,55,560

4. Points to Ponder

4.1. Snippets

Covid among children

WHO reports that there has been 50,000 death every week for the last 50 weeks due to this pandemic.
American Academy of Pediatrics reports that there has been 243,000 new paediatric covid cases in last one week while this number goes up to 500,000 if last two weeks are counted.
In the last two weeks Children represented 28.9% of total new cases.
The share of 0-18 years in USA population is 22% but their share in testing falls to 11 -21% in various states.

4.2. Learning Lesson

Ian Mackey’s Swiss Cheese Model