In terms of coronavirus spread management and providing healthcare facilities to the patients, Odisha whose population is around the same as Spain is far ahead of the advanced European country.
The issue is being discussed in international level after an American CEO redesigned Indian map where he marked the Indian states population which is almost equal to population of some of the countries.
An US company has brought similarities between Odisha and Spain. While Odisha has a population of 4.5 crore, as many as 4.7 crore people live in Spain. The difference is that Odisha has a high population density than Spain.
The possibility of COVID-19 spread is more in place where there is high population density. While Odisha is spread over only 155.707 square kilometre of area, Spain’s geographical area is 505.909 square kilometre.
When it comes to the management of COVID-19, Odisha is far ahead of Spain.
Odisha had by April 14 reported 60 COVID-19 positive cases while Spain reported 1,77,633 positive cases by April 15.
When Odisha reported one death of COVID, the casualty in Spain is as high as 18,579 persons. There is also no respite for Spain which has as many as 88,201 patients in mild condition and 7,371 people in serious or crical condition.
On the contrary, Odisha has only 41 active COVID positive cases of which only two patients require hospital care while 39 others just remain in hospital isolation in order to save themselves and check spread of the virus to other persons or to the community, said National Health Mission Director Shalini Pandit.
Odisha has only 41 patients while the State has already kept above 3, 600 beds for the COVID positive or suspected persons. While 18 patients (30 per cent) in Odisha have been discharged from hospital, 70,853 patients have been cured in Spain.