Modi faces heat over Covid crisis
May 02, 2021
4 minutes
SANJAY KAPOOR
REUTERS
DELHI has been in a lockdown for the past week. Unlike last time when police shut down cities, this time it is being enforced by fear. Meant to break the chain of surging infections and deaths and flatten the curve, has the lockdown succeeded in its objectives? Certainly not!
For someone living in Delhi – like many of the 146 cities that have been hammered by the rising tidal wave of the coronavirus – the new sounds of India’s capital are the wailing ambulance sirens that can be heard every minute.
The galloping increase of the infected has risen in excess of 360000 cases every day and
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