Very high death toll for days has silenced Indian government

May 12, 2021 14:15

''the sheer size of the India's population and the spread of the virus makes the catastrophe incomparable with any other country in the world.

'The government -- both at the federal as well as state level -- faltered. They failed to anticipate the second wave and they failed to act on expert advice on time.

'Now, everyone in the seat of power are trying to cover up. The reality is that the deadly attack of the new variant of coronavirus has completely overwhelmed the Modi government,' writes Sheela Bhatt in Gulf News, here.

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