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Is India counting all its Covid-19 deaths?
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Not very long ago, India was touted by the WHO as an unlikely success story in taming Covid-19. Several Western agencies and media outlets went gung-ho with wonderment as to how India managed to significantly lower the spread of infection and fatality rates. They were of course premature opinions and India is currently grappling with a formidable second wave. While the chorus has gradually grown louder for a complete national lockdown, it is ironic that the experts are still debating whether the focus should be on speeding up the vaccination drive along with Covid-appropriate behaviour or a total India shutdown.
The Covid-19 crisis in India is a problem for the whole world CNN 4 hrs ago Analysis by Aditi Sangal
There is a split scenario unfolding as the world battles the pandemic.
In countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, jubilant, newly-vaccinated people hug their loved ones after a long period of separation. In India, distraught families count their dead.
Sick people are being turned away from hospitals that have run out of beds and oxygen, as the number of new cases rises to record levels each day, creating a national crisis with global repercussions.
The more the virus spreads, the more chances it has to mutate and create variants that could eventually resist current vaccines, threatening to undermine other countries progress in containing the pandemic, experts warn.