April 2021 saw India’s second wave of Covid – 19. The largest democracy in the world witnessed a tremendous surge in Covid infections with more than 3 lakh fresh Covid cases daily. The detection of the UK variant in September 2020 was a big alert to be in guard, but our system was slow in detecting the mutant variants of concern. We probably took it lightly and got into the celebration mode.
The government and the scientific community never actually expect a second wave of this magnitude. The first phase of covid was a year long affair with the first six months seeing the spike and then the next six months witnessing declining numbers and a steady low number of cases.
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