Olivia Knecht, Freshman
In February, it seemed like India had gotten Covid-19 under control, with daily cases falling nearly 90% from the peak of the first wave last year. But even after 90% that drop, it quickly went back up.
In the last ten days, India has lost over 352,991 people due to the coronavirus. Hospitals are running out of beds and medical supplies to help the infected. Families are driving from clinic to clinic to try and find their loved ones some help. Most patients at hospitals are dying due to oxygen shortage as well.
Even with the government doing the best to address the outbreak, and having other countries giving aid, the outbreak does not seem to be letting up anytime soon. India is frantically trying to do their best in keeping the country safe, but with very few medical supplies, India will be seeing more deaths before it subsides.
The outbreak got bad at the start of March, when the cases started creeping up, and the scale of infections rapidly increased. The number of cases jumped six times higher that month. Since March, the cases just keep going up. People have been in fear considering that the cases came so quickly, and that so many people were unprepared for the second wave.
Right now, with the shortage of oxygen and limited supplies, the lockdown has been extended to May 3rd. Dr. DK Baluja says: "Everything we had was exhausted. The oxygen was not supplied on time. It was supposed to come in at 5 p.m. but it came around midnight. People who were critically ill needed oxygen."
It seems as if India will have a 50/50 chance of making or breaking in the second wave of the coronavirus.
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