Gandhi demands faster vaccinations after India logs 1.5 million new cases

Religious festivals and political rallies that drew tens of thousands of people became 'super-spreader' events. FMTNews

People watching their relatives’ funeral pyres at a makeshift crematorium in New Delhi yesterday.

His government has also been criticised for lifting social restrictions too soon following the first wave and for delays in the country’s vaccination programme, which medical experts say is India’s only hope of controlling the second Covid-19 wave. “After having achieved a rate of around 4 million a day, we are now down to 2.5 million per day due to vaccine shortages,” Amartya Lahiri, an economics professor at the University of British Columbia was quoted as saying in the Mint newspaper.

India’s healthcare system is crumbling under the weight of patients, with hospitals running out of beds and medical oxygen. Morgues and crematoriums can not handle the number of dead and makeshift funeral pyres burn in parks and carparks.

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