COVID second wave: Clueless Centre cannot hold
Print edition : May 07, 2021
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Health workers moving beds to the 1,200-bed COVID-19 Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad on April 15. Photo: VIJAY SONEJI
Migrants at the Secunderabad railway station in Telangana get ready to head to their hometowns amid fears of another lockdown, on April 16. Photo: PTI
Outside a vaccination centre that announced a shortage of COVID-19 vaccine supplies, in Mumbai on April 9. Photo: FRANCIS MASCARENHAS/REUTERS
As the second wave of COVID-19 rages across the nation overwhelming the public health system, the Central government remains clueless and ill-prepared.
The latest trend of rising COVID-19 cases in India, which has once again made the country one of the hotbeds of the pandemic, can only be described as an explosion. By mid-April, India accounted for nearly a quarter of new COVID-19 cases worldwide. The grim situation has once again exposed the inadequacy and inefficiency of the Union governm
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NEW DELHI: The first few weeks of the Covid pandemic s second wave in India did not see a corresponding rise in fatalities. But that has changed in the last four weeks.
Since March 8, Covid-related deaths have risen at the same pace as the spike in infections, with the seven-day average of daily cases and fatalities both surging by nearly 345% during this period.
Daily deaths (seven-day average) have risen from 96 on March 8 to 425 on April 4, which translates to an increase of nearly 4.5 times, exactly mirroring the rise in cases during this period.
In the previous four weeks (February 8 to March 8), there was a 50% rise in average daily cases but no increase in deaths.The re cent spike in deaths has been the sharpest since the beginning of the pandemic.
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