Residents relaxed Covid-safe practices like social distancing, and authorities were looser in their enforcement. The first wave peaked in September, and daily cases declined steadily in the following months the apparent recovery seemed so successful that the country’s health minister declared in early March they were “in the endgame” of the pandemic.Īnd the country’s vaccination drive, among the world’s largest and most ambitious, got underway in January.
The second wave hit so much harder because people were unprepared, experts say. That exponential rise has continued into May.
Infections began creeping upward in early March, but accelerated rapidly – the number of daily cases by the end of the month had jumped six times higher than at the start of the month. Here’s what you need to know about the crisis in India. “So it’s hard to tell whether the peak will come in the middle of May … or whether it will take a little bit longer.”īut even if the wave peaks and daily case figures decline, scientists warn that the country will continue to see high mortality throughout the month, since deaths lag behind the rise in infections. “There are some epidemiological estimates that say we are closing in on a peak, but these are all projections,” said Chandrika Bahadur, chair of the Lancet Covid-19 Commission India Task Force, on May 3. The government scrambled to respond to the crisis, with countries around the world offering aid. A man performs the last rites of a relative who died of Covid-19, as other funeral pyres are seen burning during a mass cremation in New Delhi, India, on April 24.
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