The second wave: Many under-40s on long list of Covid-19 patients in Nagpur

The first part of a series on containment zones reports how Nagpur is coping with the rise in cases

The second wave of Covid-19 cases in Nagpur has brought familiar challenges in its wake: Hospitals are stretched and businesses have been hit. But Dr Rajan Barokar sees another worrying trend each time he scans the daily admission list at Kingsway Hospitals, the largest private tertiary care hospital in Nagpur.

“Around 25 per cent of the 160 Covid-19 patients in our hospital are under 40. Some of them are in the intensive care unit, including a 17-year-old patient. This is worrisome. Last year, the proportion of hospitalised patients under 40 years was very low and none of them was in