India’s COVID-19 pandemic: Anatomy of a social crime
With India’s official totals of daily new COVID-19 infections and active cases falling for the better part of two weeks, the country’s far-right Narendra Modi-led government has begun boasting that the pandemic is on a “downward trend.” Some opposition-led state governments, including that of Delhi, meanwhile, have announced plans to relax their limited lockdown measures.
Yet India is by any measure in the midst of a social catastrophe. According to the official tallies, in the eight weeks since April 1, total infections have more than doubled, rising from 12.1 to 26.9 million, while deaths have increased by 89 percent to total 307,231 as of yesterday morning. Just in the past week, India has registered an additional 1.73 million COVID-19 cases and 28,512 deaths, or more than 4,000 per day.
“We’re cannon fodder, that’s all” Indian health care workers cry out for basic PPE as official deaths skyrocket past 300,000
A nightmare scenario continues to unfold in India where, according to the official count, more than two people are dying from COVID-19 every minute.
On Sunday, the world’s second most populous country hit the grim milestone of 300,000 official deaths, joining the United States and Brazil as the only countries to surpass this figure. Last week, on May 19, India reached another somber milestone, when it officially recorded 4,529 COVID-19 deaths, surpassing the 4,475 deaths reported in the US on January 12 and setting a new one-day global record.
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Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) from various districts of North Karnataka staged online protest on Monday seeking fulfilment of their various demands, including payment of pending remuneration for the last two months.
Staging the protest from their respective towns and villages, ASHAs took part in the online protest holding various placards highlighting their problems.
Addressing the online protestors, office-bearers of the respective district committee of ASHAs Association (Karnataka Rajya Samyukta Asha Karyakarteyara Sangha) said that at a time when ASHAs are working amid odds risking their lives, they are not being compensated properly. Even safety gears are not given to them in adequate quantities.
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