Covid-19: Why are weddings still being celebrated despite the obvious risks?
Many states have limited the number of guests who can attend events. But public health authorities warn that it would be safer if all gatherings were cancelled. A wedding procession in Ajmer on April 30. | Himanshu Sharma/AFP
Until a week before Delhi resident Sahil Gulati was due to get married, he had second thoughts about whether to go through with the celebration in the middle of the pandemic. Delhi’s healthcare system was being battered by a sharp rise in the number of Covid-19 cases and gasping patients in need of oxygen were dying because they could not find beds in the city’s already-packed hospitals.
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But appointments are not available at hospitals for vaccination.
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People wait with freezers used to preserve bodies outside a hospital in New Delhi on April 28, 2021.
| Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA
But appointments are not available at hospitals for vaccination.
Vaccine registrations for those aged 18-44 began on Wednesday with several after some glitches able to enrol, but unable to get appointments at hospitals for vaccination.
Though no figure was available for precisely how many in this age bracket registered, Ram Sewak Sharma, Chairman, CoWIN, told
The Hindu via a text message that “most” of the 8 million who had registered on Wednesday belonged to the 18-44 age bracket.