Covid surge: Eyebrows raised on registration, death figures

 

Chandan Sharma

As the eyebrows raised on the official figures of corona deaths, provided by the government, amid devastating surge of the Covid-19 and its Indian variant, the government has started registration process for vaccination of younger people.

The vaccination of younger people yet to start but the government, failed to contain surge of the second and devastating wave, sought detailed data from the youth before their vaccination. Interesting fact is that the vaccination process of 18 plus youth have been started after almost 16 months of the first outbreak of Corona amid chaotic situation emerged due to new wave. As a result, the portal suggested for registration, crashed on the first day of registration. However, the portal started working after few hours. But young people have raised questions on the registration process and asked that why government need our detailed data to save our lives!

Death figures challenged:

People have challenged corona death figures, provided by the official channels. Several media organisations and journalists and political parties too have come out with the actual data, much higher than figures provided by the officials. The figures however cannot be confirmed but the scepticism about the data is everywhere. Government too has started avoiding the queries about the corona deaths. But, local sources say that long queue outside the crematoriums and graveyards can be witnessed 24X7 and final rituals of dead bodies are continuous affair in the capital city Delhi. Several crematoriums have augmented their facilities, considering the sudden spike in deaths.

Government’s action:

As the mismanagement in the administration and executives’ inability to fail to save lives and livelihood, the bureaucracy is doing its favourite thing - presenting PPT and holding meetings. Although, Prime Minister Modi is holding meeting on daily basis to keep updated himself about all developments and to take necessary steps but helplessness and inability to save ailing people’s lives creating more difficulties on each passing day. It is notable that despite the allegations of under representation of death related data the number of official figure of deaths have crossed over two lakh (200000). Modi government has also ordered to purchase one lakh oxygen concentrators from PM care funds.

Meanwhile, city government has taken some new initiatives to augment the ICU beds and to provide oxygen supplies to the needy hospitals after the intervention of court in this matter.

Helping hands from abroad

 Several nations including US, Germany, EU, UK, Russia, UAE, Saudi and many others and UN too have extended their helping hands to contain the humanitarian and pandemic crisis emerged in India. These nations are sending medicines, vaccines, oxygen plants and other health related infrastructure to combat the virus. 

(Author is founder of the portal)