While the Indian government attempts to reverse the effects of the pandemic on its medical education pipeline, one batch of students will bear the brunt.
Adnan Abidi, Sanna Mattoo, Amit Dave and (posthumously) Danish Siddiqui have won the prize “for images of COVID-19’s toll in India that balanced intimacy and devastation while offering viewers a heightened sense of place”.
The Registrar General is yet to release the CRS data for 2021, which saw a deadlier COVID-19 wave, and which might provide a fuller picture of India’s COVID-19 death toll.
Some of the Union government’s responses to the petition that prompted a new Supreme Court order include lies that undermine confidence in its vaccination drive.