There is a second wave of corona cases in India and the number of cases are increasing at a rapid rate. The positivity rate has doubled in the last 12 days to 16.69 per cent and 10 states reported 78.56 per cent of the new Covid-19 cases.
Experts say that the next three weeks are crucial for India and
that it is very important for people to follow guidelines "very
strictly" even as the country is witnessing spiralling cases of the
coronavirus disease (Covid-19) amid an acute shortage of hospital
beds, oxygen and drugs. Doctors say if the dearth of hospital beds, oxygen
cylinders and vaccines continues, the country will be in a disastrous state.
The next three weeks are very critical for India in terms of the
spread of the infection. People should take utmost care and precautions. We
have seen this kind of situation in Italy, where many people have lost their lives
on the corridors of hospitals due to lack of treatment medicine and oxygen
cylinders.
Last year, healthcare workers were very effective in handling
the situation.
India has been reporting record single-day spikes of Covid-19
cases and on Sunday there were 261,500 infections and 1501 related deaths,
pushing the tally to 14,788,109 to become second only to the United States.
The positivity rate has doubled in the last 12 days to 16.69 per cent
and 10 states -- Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka,
Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan -- reported 78.56 per
cent of the new infections, the health ministry said. Chhattisgarh reported the
highest weekly positivity rate at 30.38 per cent, followed by Goa at 24.24 per cent,
Maharashtra at 24.17 per cent, Rajasthan at 23.33 per cent and Madhya Pradesh
at 18.99 per cent, according to the ministry. "The national weekly
positivity rate has increased from 3.05 per cent to 13.54 per cent in the last
one month," the health ministry said in a statement.
The second wave was very much expected as the
country is witnessing an increasing number of Covid-19 positive case. On many
occasions over the past few months, many medical intellectuals, have been
saying that the virus and its impact is just low and has not been completely
wiped out. We should have been a bit more prepared for this kind of situation.
In infections like Covid-19, it is quite common that there would be a second
wave as the virus mutates and whichever of the mutated variant virus is
stronger will spread faster. There have been a lot of new variants that have
emerged. More people will be infected with the mutated variant in India, if
they don't adhere to the Covid guidelines.
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