Aishwarya Samanta 
India’s COVID19 pandemic nightmare will not end as the numbers show everything. As the second wave clamped the country in April soon after everything appeared to be typical after a significant delay since the COVID19 pandemic began in 2020. It was actually similar to the quiet before the tempest. In under a month almost 7million people were affected in India and around 45000 succumbed to COVID19.
As the infection is following a pattern of upsurge, people who faced the infection are as of now in trauma. During this season of intense pressure there is a great deal of things outside our ability to control at the present time and which is unnerving. By zeroing in on the things, we can handle and refuel ourselves. Just by attempting to see the addition to during the present circumstance, we can defeat this.
This time around, the justification of the lockdown is much crazier. Limitations were facilitated, life appeared to return to normalcy and the government even flaunted that India had beaten back the infection with no supporting proof. Celebrations and public gatherings were permitted to be coordinated and state elections were announced by the Election Commission. There was gigantic congregation for Kumbh Mela and huge election rallies in as many as five states. So, it is nothing unexpected that COVID19 has reappeared.
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Lockdowns are basically government’s method of saying it is unequipped for dealing with an escalating circumstance, relinquishing responsibility and shifting responsibility on to people. We have consistently been living on this ticking delayed bomb of COVID19. Regardless of whether the government doesn’t get this, it is its obligation to continually improve and increase the health infrastructure of the country.
In India, in a large portion of the states, education and health are on the least side of the government’s need list. So, will the government be at any point prepared for a pandemic? Securing people inside their homes has the inconvenient impact of bringing down their insusceptibility level and making them defenceless against more COVID19 infections however the government is adequately shallow to zero in on winning a fight now and not having the option to see a conflict coming later on.
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The whole Indian system is to blame during the current second wave of COVID19. The Election Commission ought not have proceeded with the state assembly elections without a reasonable green sign from the medical experts. In any event, when the elections were held, no political group showed any tendency to go against the choice realizing completely well that political rallies are inescapable in the electoral process in India which consistently prompts enormous uncontrolled groups. Each political party is eager to win elections and snatch people’ power regardless of what the circumstance is. Indeed, even the Supreme Court didn’t decide to step in, cancel elections and request state governments to proceed.
It is time the states and centre quit battling or accusing one another and rather hold turns in the battle against the COVID19 virus. On a fundamental level the local infrastructure, offices and medical needs must be coordinated by the states. The central government can start to lead the pack in expanding accessibility of vaccinations and focus on large scale aspects like global travel, interstate travel, research of antibodies and drugs apart from monitoring worldwide developments in the battle against the COVID19 infection.
This battle isn’t probably going to end at any point in the near future, so the earlier the centre and state co-ordinate and participate, the better it will be for the country. The existence of every single Indian, regardless of their political affiliations, is similarly significant. Any politicizing of the battle against the infection will perpetually be at the expense of the country and its residents, and that should be kept away from.
