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Tobias Kurth is Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology at Berlins Charité hospital: The devastating situation in India should remind us that the Covid-19 pandemic is far from over and that we need to make all efforts to control the spread of the disease on a global level.
Ankita Mukhopadhyay is DW’s correspondent in India and joins live from Delhi: “The Indian government’s blame game and mismanagement of the pandemic has unnecessarily endangered millions of innocent lives.”
When Bangladesh was first hit by Covid-19 in March/April last year, we all thought that we would be seeing the end of it soon, at most by the year s end. One year down the line, we are rather worse off, not only for the lack of efficient management of the disease but also because of more deadly and virulent variants of the virus which are causing the second wave. This time around, we may be better prepared with more science-based knowledge but so is the virus armed with various mutations to penetrate our immune system. It is almost like a war of wits being waged between human ingenuity and the devilish disease, and the battle scene, for the time being, does not look good.
India COVID-19 death toll climbs amid oxygen shortages The true numbers are being suppressed
India s relatively low fatality rate doesn t tell the whole story and suspicions abound that there s substantial undercounting in several states.
Suspected cases are not being added to the final count and deaths from the infection are being credited to underlying health conditions, point out observers. There appears to be a wide discrepancy between official records of deaths attributed to COVID-19 and reports of cremations and burials that are many multiples of what might normally have been expected, Gautam Menon, a professor of physics and biology at Ashoka University, told DW.