Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, in a letter to Modi has again hit out at the centre. Mr. Gandhi has castigated the centre over its lack of a clear vaccination strategy, which has placed India in a dangerous position.
In the letter Rahul Gandhi has stated, “Your government’s lack of a clear and coherent Covid and vaccination strategy, as well as its hubris in declaring premature victory as the virus was exponentially spreading, has placed India in a highly dangerous position. Today the disease is growing explosively. It is currently on the verge of overwhelming all of our systems. GOI’s failures have made another devastating national lockdown almost inevitable.”
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Mr. Gandhi also added that with the number of Covid19 cases exploding, the government’s failures have pushed the country towards a complete lockdown.
He urged the PM to rapidly vaccinate the entire population. He also wrote, “I am compelled to write to you once more as the Covid tsunami continues to ravage our country unabated. In such an unprecedented crisis, the people of India must be your foremost priority. I urge you to do everything in your power to stop the needless suffering that our people are going through.”
In a sordid twist to the Covid19 horror tale in India, many patients in the country are suffering from a fungal infection, which is triggered by the Coronavirus infection.
Mucormycosis, a potentially fatal fungal infection, with a mortality rate of over 50% is caused by Mucormycete moulds, which easily infects immune-compromised people. Since, Covid19 causes harm to immunity and also triggers to some extent an autoimmune disorder, the patients who recover from Covid19 have higher chances of contracting Mucormycosis. In one such case in Parel, a young patient who had recovered from Covid19 had contracted the fungal disease. His upper jaw had to be removed in Global hospital so as to prevent the spread of infection from reaching his brain.
