India’s Covid-19 danger is spreading south Will South India’s health system hold up to its promise in the second wave of Covid?
Relatives mourn a loved one who died of Covid-19, outside a mortuary in Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, 5 May 2021 (Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images) Published 12 May 2021 11:00 0 Comments
Images of the pandemic in Delhi that currently saturate the international media depict ailing patients struggling to find beds, oxygen and medical attention. Amid a highly privatised healthcare terrain with underfunded public hospitals, access to Delhi’s hospitals has long depended on one’s own
jugaad (capacity to develop “workarounds”), personal networks and ties to “big men” who lean on hospital officials to provide beds – characteristics that have played into Delhi’s pandemic scenario in a disastrous way.
India's coronavirus death toll crossed 250,000 on Wednesday in the deadliest 24 hours since the pandemic began, as the disease rampaged through the countryside, leaving families to weep over the dead in rural hospitals or camp in wards to tend the sick.
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A look at the biggest Covid-19 developments of the day. May 11, 2021 · 09:20 pm A health worker incolutates a man with a dose of Covid-19 vaccine in New Delhi. | Arun Sankar/ AFP
A look at the biggest Covid-19 developments of the day:
India on Tuesday recorded 3,29,942 new Covid-19 cases, taking the tally of infections in the country to 2,29,92,517 since the pandemic broke out in the country in January 2020. The toll climbed by 3,876 to 2,49,992.
The governments of Delhi, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on Tuesday said they will issue global tenders for procurement of Covid vaccines as the domestic supply fails to keep up with the rising demand amid the fierce second wave of the pandemic, reported PTI.
How Tamil Nadu voted in 28 charts: DMK won a clean victory but AIADMK remained competitive adversary
The BJP was a liability to the AIADMK-led alliance. 4 hours ago A DMK supporter holds up a portrait of party leader MK Stalin as the Tamil Nadu election results were announced on May 2. | Arun Sankar/AFP
The Tamil Nadu election did not throw a surprising result, as the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam was largely expected to win against the beleaguered and divided All India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam . The DMK commanded over a larger alliance of parties, had a comparatively smoother transition of power after the death in 2018 of its historical leader, M Karunanidhi, and led a disciplined campaign that mixed regional and national themes.