COVID-19: A Nation s Soul Scarred Beyond Recognition in United Grief
Our flailing and floundering response as a nation to an unprecedented catastrophe will be etched in public memory as an unpardonable sin by those entrusted with the destiny of the nation.
At a cremation ground in Delhi.
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Driven by a compelling need to unburden an unbearable sense of grief, this piece is also a supplication for divine mercy in these calamitous times. It is about the moral impoverishment of an ancient society and wanton abandonment of empathy as the essential condition of our coexistence.
A nation ravaged by a surging pandemic and the accompanying hopelessness despair, destitution, sickness and death is numbed by the scale of human misery. The vastly understated official figures of daily deaths at 38,000 with over four lakh new cases every day and rising with a positivity rate of 36% in the national capital tell a story of pain and ineptitude.
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By Hoarding Essential Supplies, Corona Warriors Can t Claim to Be Helping Patients
As ordinary people struggle to get hospital beds and essential supplies in Delhi, a number of influential people, including politicians and police, have been illegally stocking up on supplies, even medical oxygen.
Patients receiving treatment at the LNJP Hospital. Photo: REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo
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A journalist recently tweeted what the founder of a diagnostic lab told her: âThis is the best time to be a politician or an IAS officer in Delhi. At least they are getting beds.â Having spent the past couple of weeks trying to help COVID-19 victims find medicines, beds and oxygen, I cannot agree with him more. Not only hospital beds, these politicians and bureaucrats and also police are in control of even the oxygen supplies and medicines.
The donation includes two grants from Google.org, Google s philanthropic arm, totaling Rs250 million. The first is to GiveIndia to provide cash assistance to families hit hardest by the crisis to help with their everyday expenses. The second will go to UNICEF to help get urgent medical supplies, including oxygen and testing equipment, to where it s needed most in India, said Sanjay Gupta, Country Head and VP, India.
It also includes donations from Google s ongoing employee giving campaign - so far more than 900 Googlers have contributed Rs37 million for organisations supporting high-risk and marginalized communities.
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai tweeted: Devastated to see the worsening Covid crisis in India. Google & Googlers are providing Rs135 Crore in funding to @GiveIndia,@UNICEF for medical supplies, orgs supporting high-risk communities, and grants to help spread critical information .
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal extended lockdown in the national capital by a week due to the massive surge in COVID-19 cases in the city. We had imposed a 6-day lockdown in Delhi. The lockdown is being extended to next Monday (May 3) till 5 am, said the Chief Minister while addressing the press conference on Sunday.
The national capital has recorded the highest single-day toll with 24,103 cases of coronavirus for the city since the outbreak of the pandemic.
Kejriwal had last week announced a week-long complete lockdown from April 19, 10 pm till April 26 at 5 am.
Prior to that, the Delhi government had announced a weekend curfew in the national capital from 10 pm on April 16 till 6 am on April 19, and the closure of malls, gymnasiums and auditoriums till April 30 amid the surge in COVID-19 cases.
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