Letters to the Editor — April 20, 2021
April 20, 2021 00:02 IST
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April 20, 2021 00:02 IST
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Pandemic management
The alarming rise in COVID-19 cases, made worse by the shortage of essentials including medical oxygen cylinders, hospital beds and vaccines, tells the grim tale of how unprepared the Centre and several States have been in tackling the ongoing second wave. The authorities either choose to ignore it or be callous about it. Health protocols have been observed in breach during the campaigning for the Assembly elections with the Election Commission having mostly remained a mute spectator. Restrictions that were clamped during the first wave have returned, threatening to derail India’s nascent economic recovery. As the country cannot afford another stringent lockdown, whose horrid memories are still fresh in the minds of people, impositions of local restrictions even while hastening the vaccination drive and widening its ambit should inform the strategy to contain the spread of the contagion.