Pandemic in India

Pandemic in India BBC.2021

The second wave of the COVID-19 is collapsing the health system of the second-most populous country in the world. In the Ganges River, which is the most important river to the Indian subcontinent and sacred for Hinduism, there are bodies, turning its water into a cemetery. In addition, there are funeral pyres throughout the country, demonstrating a state of calamity for more than 1.3 billion people. Now, there are about 300 thousand people dead and 4.5 thousand dying per day due to the COVID-19 infection.

Although the specialists indicate there is an enormous sub notification of cases in the country, considering that many people die in their own houses, without testing or treatment, estimating that the number of deaths is bigger than the official. More than this, the “Indian COVID-19 variant” is more infectious and needs a lower viral load to manifest the symptoms, which makes it more dangerous.

The world is disturbed and attentive to what is happening in India, and its variable is already in other countries, such as Brazil. It is important to note that with each new variant of the COVID-19, questions arise about the vaccine's efficacy against this new variant.

Also, a new factor has been worrying Indian doctors: a black fungus, a disease that affects many of those who survive COVID-19, forcing doctors to remove patients' eyes and jaws, so they can survive. The lethality of the fungus is about 50%, worrying the country's health authorities. A country with a population and continental dimension like India can concentrate a massive number of deaths, which may become the country with more deaths by COVID-19.

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