India News: When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in India, there were fears it would sink the fragile health system of the world's second-most populous country
India’s Battle Against Coronavirus: A Year of Stress and Success
An unsuspecting world woke to the advent of 2020 with the excitement of a new year’s dawn, amplified by the charm of its resonant numeric. There was little inkling that the year that just ended had plotted to memorialise itself through a new respiratory virus that would shake the world with a disease named Covid-19. Even as 2020 paid a high price, in global health and economy, 2021 too is still feeling the sharp sting of the virus.
India’s experience has been different from what many other parts of the world experienced, though by no means unique as our South Asian neighbours too had a similar experience. When the pandemic entered India, predictions were made of catastrophic losses from a tidal wave of infected cases flooding an inadequate health system and millions of deaths occurring because of the inability to stem the tide. Mathematical models spelt a dire destiny. However, 2020 ended reassuringly with the
When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in India, there were fears it would sink the fragile health system of the world’s second-most populous country.