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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Covid: It will get worse before it gets better -Ashish K Jha

Covid: It will get worse before it gets better -Ashish K Jha

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published Published on May 1, 2021   modified Modified on May 7, 2021

-Hindustan Times

There has been shocking, collective policy failure. Focus on controlling the spread of infections, taking care of the ill, vaccination, and genome sequencing now

There are four factors why the second wave has hit India with such intensity.

First, the variants. The B.1.1.7, the one from the United Kingdom (UK), is present in parts of northern India. B.1.617, sometimes known as the “double mutant”, is pervasive in many places across India. We don’t know how much more contagious B.1.617 is, but we do know that B.1.1.7 is very, very contagious. India should have seen this coming because variants were causing massive spikes in cases between December 2020 and February 2021 in the UK, Israel and Europe. It stood to reason that this global problem was going to come to India.

The second is the fact that in late-February and early March, infection numbers were rising quickly. And certainly by mid- to late-March, the rise was extremely obvious to anyone paying attention. And yet, through all of March, there was little to no action by the government. This was a collective and shocking policy failure.

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Hindustan Times, 1 May, 2021, https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/covidit-will-get-worse-before-it-gets-better-101619880773941.html


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