With 332,730 new positives, India for the second consecutive day sets a world record for infections, surpassing the USA as absolute numbers.
The percentage of positives to the population remains higher in America, but the over 16 million casesie le nearly 187,000 dead due to the pandemic are exasperating the Indian situation, also from a social point of view.
In addition to the pain, the deaths arouse anger, in a country where a month and a half ago the Minister of Health announced that the emergency was coming out.
In fact, the current situation is the worst since the pandemic since the beginning: not only the hospitals are in crisis, but also the cemeteries, to the point that they are more and more frequent mass cremations, outside.
The situation is destroying the Prime Minister’s reputation Narendra Modi, re-elected in 2019 despite a difficult economic situation that had not affected his image.
Despite the adoption of emergency measures, as new Covid-hospital, the creation of new plants for the production of oxygen cylinders and the delivery of 100,000 respirators on the national territory, finding themselves with such a serious emergency after more than a year from the beginning of the pandemic is considered an unforgivable lack on the part of citizens, who with increasingly frequent are organizing protests.
The alert forpublic order it is therefore a further source of concern, for India already brought to its knees by Covid-19.