India s COVID crisis: A deadly example of government failure
Independent Australia
05 May 2021, 16:52 GMT+10
The devastating outbreak across India exposes the stark failures in governance and vaccine development locally and across the world, writes Dr Rashad Seedeen.
THE ONGOING CRISIS of COVID-19 has exposed the abject failure in strong-men governments and neoliberalism.
India, a Government led by Hindu-nationalist Narendra Modi, has recently reported the highest daily total of COVID-19 cases at 401,933. This was reported after ten days of over 300,000 of new daily cases.
As author Arundhati Roynoted, only a few months earlier at the World Economic Forum, Modi smugly declared that:
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