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Since the beginning of April 2021, while India is battling desperately to survive the terrible onslaught of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of newly infected cases is also rising sharply in the neighbouring South Asian countries. The severity of the pandemic in Nepal has already reached an alarming level. Its deposed king is down with the Coronavirus after returning from the Kumbha Festival in India.
Bangladesh has been under the grip of the second wave since early March. After it closed the land border with India for people’s movement, the number of new cases in the country has reduced. Besides, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and even the Maldives have brought several restrictions on people travelling from India. Pakistan is quite anxious over the possibility of a likely spillover of the pandemic across the border.
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The ongoing Covid crisis in India is probably one of the worst humanitarian crises the world has witnessed in recent memory. The virus is on the rampage, spreading from urban centres to rural hinterlands and mutating at its will.
Data on new cases and deaths is fuzzy at best, agencies are unprepared and overwhelmed, oxygen and hospital beds are still in short supply, and more worryingly, no one can even guess when this desperate situation will come to an end.
The rapidly deteriorating Covid situation in India has made the world alarmed and nervous. Breaking a self-imposed ban, the Indian government has been receiving emergency aid from various parts of the world. Despite the reports of aid not reaching the needy, the international community is doing everything to support India. Besides basic humanitarian concerns, the world has a lot to worry about India.
Since the beginning of April 2021, India is witnessing a sharp spike in new Covid-19 cases, which has brought unimaginable public health emergencies. Thousands are dying, and the conformed new cases have gone up to 400,000 daily.
The images of mass cremation pyres and desperate struggle of the COVID-19 patients in front of hospitals for a bed and oxygen, even in India’s capital city Delhi have exposed India’s lack of prior preparedness to meet easily predictable second wave.
India’s Covid crisis has become so huge that it has brought unthinkable misery for the country and has posed a serious threat to the world. India’s highly contagious double mutant (officially called B. 1.617) has already spread to at least 17 other countries, and the others are worried about being affected by it. The US has banned travels from India, and Australia threatens a 5-year jail term for anyone arriving from India.