NewsTracker Answers for week of Apr 26, 2021

Q: Indian authorities scrambled to get oxygen tanks to hospitals where COVID-19 patients were suffocating amid the world’s worst coronavirus surge, as the government came under increasing criticism for what doctors said was its negligence in the face of a foreseeable public health disaster. Where is India?

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Q: “Every hospital is running out (of oxygen). We are running out,” Dr. Sudhanshu Bankata, executive director of Batra Hospital in India’s capital. What is the capital of India?

A. Bangalore

B. Delhi

C. Kolcata

D. Mumbai

B. Delhi, the National Capital Territory, has more than 11 million people, and is India’s second most populous city after Mumbai. At two other hospitals in the capital, at least 45 patients died last Thursday and Friday from insufficient oxygen supplies.

Q: India’s government has been reporting more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases day – almost half of all new cases in a global surge. But experts say those numbers represent just a fraction of the real virus spread in world’s second most populous nation. India’s population is about how much larger than the third-ranked United States?

A. 2 times as large

B. 3 times as large

C. 4 times as large

D. 5 times as large

C. With nearly 1.3 billion people, India has reported 189,544 deaths compared with 570,746 reported deaths in the United States with a population of about 330 million. Epidemiologists say the true number of India’s Covid deaths is “two to five times what is being reported.” The undercount has been blamed on nervous officials and families hiding infections.

Q: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared victory over the coronavirus in January. Modi came to power in 2014 as a religious nationalist actively promoting India’s largest religion . . .

A. Christianity

B. Buddhism

C. Hinduism

D. Islam

C. Hinduism is the religion of 79.8% of Indians – followed by Islam at 14.2%, Christianity 2.3%, Sikhism 1.7%, Buddhism 0.7% and Jainism 0.4%.

Q: India has 0.86 doctors for every 1,000 people. Which of India’s neighbors has the highest ratio physicians?

A. Bangladesh

B. China

C. Myanmar

D. Pakistan

B. China has 1.98 doctors per 1,000 people. The rest of India’s neighbors have less than one physician for every 1,000 people. In the United States, the ratio is 2.53 doctors per 1,000, while Cuba has 8.42 physicians for every 1,000 people.