But pressure is mounting on Modi to announce a nationwide lockdown as he did during the first wave of infections last year.
"A failure of governance of epic and historic proportions," Vipin Narang, a political science professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, said on Twitter.On Sunday, top White House coronavirus adviser Dr Anthony Fauci said he had advised Indian authorities they needed to shut down.
The Indian Medical Association has also called for a"complete, well-planned, pre-announced" lockdown. New Delhi, the capital, entered a fourth week of lockdown, with tougher curbs such as the shutdown of the suburban rail network, while residents scrambled for scarce hospital beds and oxygen supplies."This phase is so tough, this wave is so dangerous, so many people are dying ... the priority at this hour is to save lives," he said in a televised address.
21 days .....
The point which needs to be really pondered is in entire Indian subcontinent Pakistan,Bangladesh,Nepal have no second wave but only India has.The population density,compliance to mask, social distancing is no better if not worse there.Medical or hospital infra is no better either
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