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EXPLAINER: Why India is shattering global infection records
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Wed 21 Apr 2021 07.15 EDT
Last modified on Wed 21 Apr 2021 10.27 EDT
Looking out over a sea of jostling, maskless faces gathered at a political rally in West Bengal on Saturday, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, proudly proclaimed that he had ânever ever seen such huge crowdsâ. A mask was also noticeably absent from Modiâs face.
That same day, India registered a record-breaking 234,000 new coronavirus cases and 1,341 deaths â and the numbers have kept rising since.
The country has descended into a tragedy of unprecedented proportions. Almost 1.6 million cases have been registered in a week, bringing total cases to more than 15 million. In the space of just 12 days, the Covid positivity rate doubled to 17%, while in Delhi it hit 30%. Hospitals across the country have filled to capacity but this time it is predominately the young taking up the beds; in Delhi, 65% of cases are under 40 years old.
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Be it through fake IDs or undeclared cases, these companies are ignoring health, safety and ethics to force employees to attend office amid a raging pandemic
ETtech
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi
An FMCG company has been forcing its employees to come to office – even when some of them could have worked from home – while restrictions on activities are in force, a young engineer from Maharashtra has claimed.
And not just that; some employees were pulled up by the HR department of this company because they took Covid-19 tests found to be positive, creating unrest among the remaining workforce. Please keep this anonymous as I don’t want to be the reason they lose their job. But I just wanted to say this to someone. It’s so sad, the engineer told ET last week.
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A few companies in cities with strict restrictions on movement are still forcing their employees to travel to the office using fake essential-worker IDs and stickers.
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Despite strict Covid restrictions, some companies in Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi and Bengaluru are not only insisting that their employees come in to work but also looking for ways to get around curbs.
These include issuing fake essential-worker IDs or fraudulent permission letters to their employees, and not disclosing Covid-19 cases to the authorities.
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