Billowing coronavirus cases are ravaging parts of India as the country reported 386,452 new infections on Friday, the biggest single-day increase for any country, along with 3,500 deaths.
The virus situation in the state right now is wild and beyond control, as the crematoriums are brimming with dead bodies of the infected patients and the nation is hankering for oxygen.
The real death toll is expected much higher and the central government is facing criticism for mishandling the situation.
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The crisis in India has projected several lessons for other states that how a country of over 1.3 billion population nearly curbed the virus in the first phase but later botched the situation from its own hands.
The first covid-19 case in India appeared in January 2020 and the state witnessed a spike by September of the same year with nearly 93,000 cases per day.
The country on an immediate basis rolled out vaccines for its population and a nationwide lockdown was imposed that led to a dip in coronavirus cases to around 11,000 per day by February 2021.
By that time, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan announced that the state had tackled the pathogen crisis successfully and was now out of the war zone.
Soon after the situation ameliorated, West Bengal election rallies commenced and the political leaders along with their followers joined public meetings, defied all SOPs.
The electioneering in the country was in full swing and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was of the view that the religious and political gatherings had nothing to do with the surge in cases.
“High cases have nothing to do with religious or political gatherings,” Dr Vijay Chauthaiwale, of the BJP, told the BBC.
The political gatherings witnessed a massive violation of SOPs that was simmering a new diabolic crisis.
This year, the cases picked up momentum in March and reached unprecedented levels but BJP government acted dull-witted and still allowed religious assemblies in the state.
Vaisakhi Tehwar was allowed in the state and the devotees attended the events in connection with the day, taming a new crisis.
The Maha Kumbh Mela was celebrated in the months of March-April and the government allowed thousands of devotees to bath in River Ganges.
The mela attracted millions of devotees from all over the country and almost no measures were followed to combat the virus.
More than 1,600 positive cases were detected at this event between 10 and 14 April, reported BBC.
Now, the situation has slipped out from Indian government’s hands and it just witnessed more than 0.4 million positive cases yesterday, a new global record.
Our entire nation is suffering because of the ego & arrogance of this govt.#COVID19India pic.twitter.com/DfeNQEckrB
— Congress (@INCIndia) May 1, 2021
As per reports, nearly 52 journalists have died in blazing India in the last 28 days while the nation is facing a calamity that generations are going to remember.
While PM Modi has been criticized widely for its fatuous policies, Dr Anthony S Fauci, one of covid’s most trusted global voices, urged Indian authorities to impose an immediate shutdown for few weeks.
Fauci, chief medical advisor to the Biden administration and who has worked with seven US presidents, was of the view that ‘NO nation likes to lock itself down but an “immediate” shut down for a “few weeks” could put an end to the cycle of transmission in India’.