There is no such thing as "very mutated". Something is either mutated or not.
Your comment goes aligned with the governement propaganda that this is happening only due to the more dangerous strain. I would agree with it if people were dying AFTER GETTING proper medical care. You cannot solely blame the mutation as people are dying without any treatment. It's the dismal healthcare system and the governments who should be blamed. We are not seeing a surge of death among patients with this strain in UK, and US.
The central government's hubris, and every government's not listening to the experts, behaving relaxed which are to blame.
It’s certainly possible for one strain to have more mutations than another (relative to the variant that initially spread in China), though that doesn’t necessarily correlate with dangerousness.
The cases spiked after April. If it was not mutation the total number of active cases would have still going up from last October. Active cases suddenly dropped from October with no good factors to indicate why it dropped.
I have been to 3 wedding after the drop. Almost no one was wearing mask. As far i know govt was still asking people to wear mask. There were major Hindu festivals after October and coming winter were everyone was worried the cases would rise. Did the virus simply hide and rose rapidly?
I also observed this - the slow rise from end-Feb to end-Mar and then the sudden very very steep rise in covid positive cases from end-Mar.
In India, people started opening up during Sep/Oct 2020. I too relaxed the strict restrictions/rules that I was, till then, sticking to. Went to restaurants with friends and teammates (with masks wherever possible) and many people were doing inter-state travels, political events started happening, many festivals/gatherings started happening etc. Life was returning to normal. My important observation is that from then (Sep/Oct 2020) onwards, lots and lots of people were not following covid protocols properly. Social distancing was not followed. Many people did not even put on masks. Am not sure why, but even with all these behaviours which should result in increasing covid positive numbers, the covid positive numbers were continuously going down. I think it hit bottom during second half of Feb 2021.
And then the numbers started to rise - slowly from end-Feb to end-Mar and then suddenly very very steeply rise from end-Mar 2021. And by mid-Apr 2021, things got very alarming. Most of my circle of friends knew that generally the second wave will hit harder than the first. But we also that because vaccination has been going on for 2 or 2.5 months by then, it can help. The strictest (to follow the restrictions) among my friends also started to loosen up a bit. The previous reports that the second wave will hit us during Jan/Feb did not come true. So, we were hoping that there won't be a second wave. Even the US thought that they can start banning the export of raw materials needed for the production of vaccines in India.
So, I do not know if anyone predicted (with numbers to backup their estimates) that the case load will be this bad during Apr 2021. The second wave caught lots of us by surprise. But I believe, like the US and UK survived their second waves and are doing pretty well now, India too will hopefully emerge better and stronger.
* >> But I believe, like the US and UK survived their second waves and are doing pretty well now, India too will hopefully emerge better and stronger. *
and scarred. Some of the stories I read in newspapers, and heard are gut wrenching; reports like families losing more than one person in quick succession, quite young folks dying.
>> There is no such thing as "very mutated". Something is either mutated or not.
Well if there are 1 billion genes and one virus strain has 1 mutated gene while another virus has 1,000,000 mutated genes then the latter is "very mutated".
Like a white human and a black human are somewhat mutated relative to each other but both humans are "very mutated" as compared to a chimpanzee. Although 98% humans and chimpanzees are the same animal, let's call it humpanzee.
