Posted on April 17th, 2021
Shweta Sharma and Samuel Lovett Courtesy The Independent
An elderly woman gasped for air at the main 1,000-bed Covid hospital in Mumbai, India, even as a ventilator pumped oxygen into her lungs. She collapsed after hours of struggling for each breath, but came round again after doctors performed CPR to stimulate her heart back to life.
Dr Sharad Achwar knew she would not survive. The infection had ravaged her lungs. Her daughter was called from the hospital and told: Your mother has a few hours.”
The daughter was furious at first, replying: Do not say this doctor, all I have is her.” But like hundreds of thousands of other Indians in this pandemic, she had no choice but to accept the toll taken by Covid-19 on her family.
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As India becomes the global epicenter of Covid-19, the country faces the anti-science government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and indifference from one side public safety protocols.
On Thursday (15), India recorded 200,739 coronavirus infections in a single day, the highest record since the start of the pandemic in the country, while Modi’s government allowed millions of people to participate in Hindu religious festivals and political rallies in states holding elections.
Public health experts say the second wave was prompted by a complete disregard for restrictions placed on tackling the virus, especially by crowds who don’t wear masks and congregate in large metropolitan areas for political rallies and demonstrations. religious events.
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The resurgence of COVID-19 is expected to continue in the coming days with a study predicting the number of cases to reach 12.9 lakh and deaths, 13,600, by May 10 in Karnataka.
Jeevan Raksha, a public-private partnership initiative by Proxima, a management consulting firm, with technical support and guidance of Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), has, in it is ‘COVID-19: Wave 2: Trend analysis and Projection’ said that the total cases in Karnataka, which stood at 11,09,650 on April 14, will reach 12,90,000 on May 10.
Similarly, the number of persons dying by COVID-19 in the State is projected to reach 13,600 on May 10 from the 13,112, who had died till April 14. Jeevan Raksha’s convenor Mysore Sanjeev said the projections were based on its forecasting module Proxima Pandemic Management System (PPMS), which had also carried out similar projections between August 2020 and January 2021.