I don't know if Asian countries should be patting themselves on the backs yet. Here in India, it seemed like we had everything under control in the first 6 weeks of the lockdown.
But now, our cases and deaths are rising fast, just as we're winding down the lockdowns.
Bangalore avoided infections since much of the country was locked down. The real litmus test will be to see how the infection rate holds after the lockdowns end.
I don't know the actual situation on the ground, but here in Europe TV were showing massive crowds of people leaving cities, etc. when the lockdown started in India.
Based on that it seemed unlikely that things were under control...
I saw a similar thing about China in the beginning. When Wuhan went on lockdown something like a million people fled.
Some of my Indian coworkers said their relatives said a mysterious flu was killing some people but they hadn’t made a link to Covid. This was months ago.
Oh I agree - nobody should pat themselves on the back until this is over, and even then I'm sure all countries involved could have handled the situation better.
This is a separate issue from Tegnell ignoring a lot of knowledge that is out there in order to stick to his existing narrative.
But now, our cases and deaths are rising fast, just as we're winding down the lockdowns.
Bangalore avoided infections since much of the country was locked down. The real litmus test will be to see how the infection rate holds after the lockdowns end.