COVID second wave: Clueless Centre cannot hold Print edition : May 07, 2021 T+ T- Health workers moving beds to the 1,200-bed COVID-19 Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad on April 15. Photo: VIJAY SONEJI Migrants at the Secunderabad railway station in Telangana get ready to head to their hometowns amid fears of another lockdown, on April 16. Photo: PTI Outside a vaccination centre that announced a shortage of COVID-19 vaccine supplies, in Mumbai on April 9. Photo: FRANCIS MASCARENHAS/REUTERS As the second wave of COVID-19 rages across the nation overwhelming the public health system, the Central government remains clueless and ill-prepared. The latest trend of rising COVID-19 cases in India, which has once again made the country one of the hotbeds of the pandemic, can only be described as an explosion. By mid-April, India accounted for nearly a quarter of new COVID-19 cases worldwide. The grim situation has once again exposed the inadequacy and inefficiency of the Union government’s strategy to contain the pandemic.