COVID Combat: Why India is in a Better Position Than China?

As China faced a fresh wave of Covid cases, on Thursday elderly patients lined the wards of hospitals in major Chinese cities.

In an outbreak that authorities claim is impossible to monitor following the end of required mass testing, the virus is spreading rapidly throughout China.

Elderly persons suffering from Covid-19 writhing on stretchers attached to breathing tubes in the emergency rooms of hospitals has become a common sight in central China.

Millions of aged individuals in China are still not properly immunised, which raises worries that the virus may kill a significant number of the country’s most vulnerable inhabitants.

In contrast, India appears to be at a much lower risk of experiencing a repeat of its first wave COVID crisis because the country has administered 2.2 billion doses of the Covid-19 vaccine up to this point, and many individuals have also received the booster dose shots and are therefore reasonably protected. We won’t notice a spike in mortality if a new variation has indeed arrived in China and is affecting people. Undoubtedly, there are concerns, but we shouldn’t become anxious. The apparatus is in place, and the government has already started taking action to keep an eye on the situation.

Furthermore, as has already been established, senior individuals are more at danger of falling prey to coronavirus, hence, favoured by a lower median age of 28.7 years, India’s risk of replicating China’s ongoing miseries is significantly lower. China has a median age of 38.4 years.

As per experts, Corona death toll in China is expected to rise in 2023 because of the use of less effective vaccines and low vaccine coverage among those 80 and older in the country.

There are 164 million diabetes patients in China and over 8 million people aged 80 or more, who have not been vaccinated.