“The number of vaccination sessions held each day has increased from around 3,000 to over 12,000 now. In the next few weeks, the number of sessions will cross 50,000”
Despite Covid-19’s downward trajectory in India, two worries remain
Researchers are not resting easy yet. Representational image. | Niharika Kulkarni/Reuters
When India went into lockdown in March 2020, the fear of Covid-19 swiftly spreading through a densely populated country of 130 crore people was dangerously real.
A harsh lockdown, one of the strictest in the world, created a humanitarian crisis of its own, pushing millions of migrant workers to take arduous journeys back home on foot. But the possible catastrophic impact of the pandemic was considered greater in magnitude by the government.
Nearly 11 months on, the Covid-19 infections and fatalities in India tell a different story.
Coronavirus | Maharashtra surge worrisome, says CM
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Lockdown announced in Amravati district which has seen a large number of cases
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Lockdown announced in Amravati district which has seen a large number of cases
Remarking that Maharashtra’s sudden and steep surge in Covid-19 cases was worrisome indeed, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said that the government would come to know within the next fifteen days whether or not the State was facing a ‘second wave’ of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Minister Yashomati Thakur said Amravati district in Vidarbha region would be placed under a lockdown from 8 p.m. on Monday to 8 a.m. on March 1.