TRIBUNNEWS.COM, LONDON – India has broken a record for Covid-19 cases and its death rate has soared over the past four days.
The combination of the dominant British variant and the emerging “dual mutant” variant has flooded India into the trigger.
Dr Amir Khan, a doctor at the UK’s National Health Service and a lecturer at the UK’s University of Bradford School of Medicine made a special note on the Aljazeera.com website, Sunday (25/4/2021).
According to him, something was wrong in India. Currently, the country has reported 346,786 new cases of Covid -19 in the previous 24 hours, with 2,624 deaths.
This is the highest daily toll in the world since the pandemic started last year. In all, nearly 190,000 people have died from coronavirus in the country. Meanwhile more than 16.6 million people have been infected.
India’s new outbreak was so severe that hospitals ran out of oxygen and beds, and many who were sick were turned away.
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Prohibition of Flights to and from India
New Zealand, Hong Kong, the UK and the US have banned direct flights to and from India, or have advised their citizens not to travel at all; and the list may grow longer.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, eager to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with the country, was forced to cancel plans to travel to India this week.
He plans to meet Indian President Narendra Modi virtually. For a country where the number of COVID-19 appears to have dropped dramatically just a few weeks ago, what’s wrong in India?
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