I was just watching on NHK that the N501Y mutated strain in Japan is putting healthy 30-60 year olds in hospital care 66% more often.

They are actively cancelling Olympic training events and reducing paralympic events, and only 10% of Tokyo residents surveyed said they are happy the games are going to continue as planned.

4.8% of India is still 65 million people.

Somewhere I read that Covid deaths are underreported. This is in the chaotic times understandable even if unfortunate. It's said it happened everywhere, even in the USA and in Europe, and the real rates are somewhere between 1.5 times to 10 times the reported rates.

And Japan seems to be an outlier with massively underreported deaths.

Probably because many elderly died alone at home and where interred or incinerated without further testing.