what wave means in terms of pandemic? like currently we are hearing that second wave is going on in india.
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India is suffering the world’s worst Covid-19 crisis. The daily infection rate is more than 300,000; the daily death toll, in excess of 2,000, is very likely an undercount. The health system has broken down, with scarcities in everything from hospital beds to oxygen. The Indian government has restricted vaccine exports and is instead trying to secure supplies from abroad.
You’ve experienced this disaster firsthand as the head of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at the Ashoka University, near New Delhi. Last fall and winter, it looked like India was doing very well in managing its Covid outbreak. Looking back now, what did we miss?
Shahid Jameel, director, Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University: We were still on a rising curve in August, and it seemed like India would cross the 100,000-per-day mark. The peak came in mid-September, when we were pulling roughly 97,000 cases. But then, suddenly the graph started dropping and for the next five months, the graph kept dropping, dropping.
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