Yesterday, the total number of COVID positive cases touched 2.6 million, of which 1 million have been added in August itself.
The number of officially recorded deaths crossed 50,000.

Yet, people are going on holidays, meeting relatives, celebrating birthdays.
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Fatigue has set in. Our movement has been restricted for almost 5 months, the promised miracle has not occured and we are all fed up.
In our impatience and frustration, we are trying to tell ourselves that the pandemic is under control and we are doing unnecessary things.
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Also, we are dividing the number of deaths with the total number of infections and saying it has a fatality rate of ONLY 1.9%.

Untrue.
To get the fatality rate, you have to divide by the number of infections 10 days earlier, which takes the official rate to 2.5%.
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More importantly, the crude annual death rate in India is 0.7%. Compare that to the death rate derived from official figures, and draw your own conclusions on whether the percentage can be called 'only'.

As of today, there is NO vaccine and no miracle cure.
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The only thing we can do is to take steps to ensure that the spread is slowed down, so we can resume normal life with sufficient precautions.

Meet people only if absolutely required.
Wear masks in public
Maintain physical distancing
Practice hand hygine

Try to slow the spread.
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