Why are Covid instances in India hovering? – BBC Newsnight
Many have criticised the Indian authorities for permitting Kumbh Mela – a two-month lengthy non secular pageant – to go forward amid a raging pandemic, as new instances prime 200,000 a day. Please subscribe HERE
India now has the second highest variety of coronavirus instances on the earth – behind the US which has a smaller inhabitants.
Greater than 14 million persons are affected and there are experiences {that a} new variant is on the rise which some worry could possibly be extra virulent.
Many have criticised the Indian authorities for permitting Kumbh Mela – a two-month lengthy non secular pageant – to go forward amid a raging pandemic.
Newsnight’s Sima Kotecha experiences. Katie Razzall is joined by Professor Srinath Reddy President of the Public Well being Basis of India.
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