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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14627516/million-ganges-hindu-festival-indias-covid-crisis-worst-world/
see full report...Deaths from covid set to double in 2 months...
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COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing in India amid overcrowding and
complacency as a million converge for a Hindu festival.
A full opening of the economy from last year’s crippling lockdown,
coupled with the mass religious festivals and political rallies in
states heading to elections have fuelled the crisis.
It emerged today India has racked up the world’s highest tally of new
daily coronavirus infections, by far beating its own record.
This has carried India past Brazil for a tally of 13.53 million, data
shows, amid fears it may become a new breeding ground for mutant virus
like the South American country.
It now ranks as the second-most infected country after the United
States, with 31.2 million testing positive.
More than 170,200 Indians have perished so far from the virus.
And the alarming tally is on course to double in two months, according
to estimates based on data from the Johns Hopkins University Center for
Systems Science and Engineering.
Meanwhile, there is a shortage of vaccines, hospital beds and drugs with
India banning the export of anti-viral drug Remdesivir.
Yet authorities appeared unwilling or unable to stop events that could
lead to a calamitous spread of the disease.
Hundreds of thousands of Hindu devotees flocked today to take a holy
bath in India’s Ganges river in the northern city of Haridwar.
Police official Sanjay Gunjyal told Reuters at the site: "The crowd here
is surging... the police are continuously appealing to people to
maintain social distancing,"
By mid-morning a million people had taken a dip in the river, believed
to wash away one’s sins.
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