India’s Covid Nightmare.
The Coronavirus is spiraling out of control in India, driving up the World infection rate. (Washington Post)
“More than a year after the pandemic began, infections worldwide have surpassed their previous peak. The average number of coronavirus cases reported each day is now higher than it has ever been.
“Cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying rates,” said World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday.
A major reason for the increase: the ferocity of India’s second wave. The country accounts for about one in three of all new cases.”
Unfortunately the vaccine rollout has not been quick enough to halt the latest surge in Coronavirus infections that are surging in many places around the World. Immediate lockdown sin affected nations need to be instituted in order to get the latest infection spiral under control, but those are much easier said than done. Vaccine distribution must also be equally allocated to the developing world to ensure equity among nations or the virus will keep springing up in less vaccinated locales to the detriment of everyone.
