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India Coronavirus Dispatch: Country's size, diversity may be hindering peak

Punjab's oxygen demand spikes, Ventilator shortage in Karnataka and Bengaluru overtakes Mumbai on daily cases--news on how the country is dealing with the pandemic

Coronavirus, vaccine, covid, drugs, clinical trials
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Bengaluru was the least-affected among the big cities in India for a long time but has now emerged to take the third spot after beating Mumbai

Shreegireesh Jalihal New Delhi
Will a peak never come? Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary of the Union health ministry, had on multiple occasions claimed that India’s Covid peak ‘will never come’. Six months into the pandemic, this baffling claim now seems prophetic. This would be a singularly unique situation as most other countries have seen peaks and plateaus. Some experts say that this happening simply because of India’s size and the fact that different regions of the country are at different stages of the pandemic while the national average remains an aggregation of what is happening across the country. Further, India’s lockdown did not help

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