Death rates soar in Southeast Asia as virus wave spreads

[malaise]

https://apnews.com/article/business-health-asia-coronavirus-pandemic-southeast-asia-742d432d930641bd5f3dd7f33d471579


Indonesia has converted nearly its entire oxygen production to medical use just to meet the demand from COVID-19 patients struggling to breathe. Overflowing hospitals in Malaysia had to resort to treating patients on the floor. And in Myanmar’s largest city, graveyard workers have been laboring day and night to keep up with the grim demand for new cremations and burials.

Images of bodies burning in open-air pyres during the peak of the pandemic in India horrified the world in May, but in the last two weeks the three Southeast Asian nations have now all surpassed India’s peak per capita death rate as a new coronavirus wave, fueled by the virulent delta variant, tightens its grip on the region.

The deaths have followed record numbers of new cases being reported in countries across the region which have left health care systems struggling to cope and governments scrambling to implement new restrictions to try to slow the spread.

[FalloutShelter]

1. Dear God, that is horrifying.

Frankly, Mal, I don't know how we avoid this in some parts of the country. The worst of all of this is that it did not have to be so terrifyingly bad. It was bad enough, but FG fucked everything up. I am sick of the bullying tyranny of the idiot right.

[malaise]

2. Well for starters if greed didn't run everything

The Olympics would have been cancelled ages ago

[Hugin]

5. What's the latest status on the Olympics?

The last I saw cancellation was still on the table.

[roamer65]

3. That's what's coming here for the unvaccinated.

GM, malaise!

[malaise]

4. Good morning to you my friend