Opinion | Pandemic: If lockdowns are enforced, situation will definitely improve in next 2-3 weeks

India registered 1,761 deaths through the previous 24 years as a result of Covid pandemic because the second wave is taking the type of a tsunami spreading in totally different states, unabated. The variety of energetic instances have doubled in the final ten days and has crossed 20 lakhs. Nearly 2.6 lakh new Covid instances had been reported on Monday, and the situation is grim throughout all metros and cities. 

The whole variety of demise for the reason that onset of the pandemic has now touched 1,80,530. Till now, 12.7 crore folks have been vaccinated throughout India. On Monday, the Centre introduced that each one Indians above the age of 18 years will now be eligible to get Covid vaccines from May 1. Every week-long full lockdown has been clamped in the nationwide capital Delhi, which recorded greater than 23,700 Covid instances on Monday. 240 Covid sufferers died in Delhi in the final 24 hours.

With authorities and personal hospitals unable to bear the load of an enormous variety of Covid sufferers, the Centre has requested Army and DRDO to open up hospitals to deal with Covid sufferers. DRDO will arrange momentary Covid hospitals in Lucknow and Ahmedabad, it has already opened an enormous Covid hospital in Delhi.  Within two hours of the opening of the Covid hospital in Delhi, all of the 250 beds had been crammed up. The capability is now being enhanced to 500. 

The Defence Ministry has requested all cantonment board hospitals to confess civil Covid sufferers. Two extra Covid hospitals will be arrange in Patna and Nashik by the DRDO. 

In a grim repeat of final yr, an enormous exodus of migrant staff has begun from Delhi after it was introduced {that a} week-long lockdown will be enforced. More than 5,000 migrants rushed to Anand Vihar ISBT to catch buses for his or her dwelling cities. 

There is not any cause to panic. According to consultants, the principle goal behind lockdown is to interrupt the virus chain that had been spreading for the final two months. Once the virus chain breaks, the Covid curve will definitely fall flat after which decline. This has already occurred in Mumbai, as we confirmed final night time in our present ‘Aaj Ki Baat’ on India TV. 

The medical fraternity has welcomed Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s determination to impose a weeklong lockdown in the capital. Doctors stated this was essential to ease the large load that had been placed on the capital’s hospitals, each private and non-private. Such a drastic step was needed and the outcomes will be seen quickly, they stated. The concern isn’t solely of a scarcity of beds, ventilators and oxygen cylinders, there’s extreme scarcity of healthcare staff, a lot of whom have been examined constructive, and are in self-isolation. Doctors say that these individuals who have delicate Covid methods and have been discovered constructive, can keep at dwelling and take medicines to get better. 

The moot level is vaccination. The extra folks get the vaccine, the lesser load hospitals will need to bear. India has vaccinated a report variety of folks. It has been our Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s earnest endeavour, proper from the start, to make sure that vaccines attain the frequent folks on the earliest. Yet, there are nonetheless many who are sceptical in regards to the vaccines. In the primary stage, healthcare staff got first precedence for vaccination, however you will be stunned to know that solely 37 per cent out of a 3 crore plus well being workforce have opted for vaccines. The age restrict was lowered to 45 years, and but many individuals in the age group of 45-plus didn’t come ahead and take vaccines. 

Now that vaccination for all 18-plus Indians have been allowed from May 1, we count on to see an enormous rush for vaccines. In the US and UK, numerous folks took vaccines, and right this moment, due to a drop in Covid instances, the markets have now reopened. We ought to study from their expertise. Our inhabitants is almost 100 crores extra in comparison with that of the US, and it will take a very long time to vaccinate all. Remember, vaccination is the one technique accessible to manage the pandemic.

The greatest mistake that we did was to presume when the primary wave died down, {that a} second wave will by no means hit India. By February, a lot of the enormous Covid momentary hospitals that had been constructed final yr had been dismantled resulting from an absence of sufferers. Most of the folks took it straightforward, began transferring in crowds, with out masks, didn’t practise hand hygiene, and the outcomes are there for all to see. 

We may have used this important time to extend the variety of hospital beds, improve oxygen provide, ventilators and medicines, however we took a complacent view. Most of the use had been centered on vaccines – To take, or to not take. By this time, the marriage season started, events had been on in full swing, Kumbh Mela was allowed, political rallies passed off, and the pandemic, that was ready in the wings, struck. The situation has now turn out to be chaotic in the final two weeks. Now that curfews and lockdowns have been imposed, I’m assured that higher outcomes will be seen in the next two to a few weeks.

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