India’s Catastrophic Coronavirus Surge Highlights Global Vulnerabilities Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder © (TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images) TOPSHOT - Covid-19 coronavirus positive patients are seen inside a banquet hall temporarily converted into a covid care centre in New Delhi on April 29, 2021. (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP) (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images)
While some countries are making progress on coronavirus vaccinations and even looking toward relaxing mitigation measures, India is seeing the worst outbreak of the pandemic – one that highlights that the crisis is still far from over.
India s massive population deepens the challenge of containing a highly transmissible virus. Still, experts say India s surge shows that other countries must be wary of resurgences that could give rise to problematic variants capable of spreading across the globe.
As Covid sweeps India, experts say cases and deaths are going unreported
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Modi s BJP: India s ruling party leader says responsibility is ours for Covid-19 outbreak
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(CNN) Responsibility for the devastating second wave of Covid-19 now sweeping India belongs first and foremost to the government, according to Narendra Taneja, a spokesman for the ruling BJP party. We are in power, we are the government in India so of course responsibility is first and foremost ours, good or bad, whatever it is. It is our responsibility and we re trying our very level best, Taneja told CNN s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
However, he also argued that the current crisis could not have been foreseen. A lot of people are saying that. we knew in February. At that time, scientists and doctors were more or less of the same view, he said.