Coronavirus: How Delhi 'wasted' lockdown to become India's biggest hotspot
Source: BBC
Coronavirus: How Delhi 'wasted' lockdown to become India's biggest hotspot
28 June 2020
With more than 77,000 cases of Covid-19, Indias capital, Delhi has become the countrys biggest hotspot. The BBC's Aparna Alluri explains how this appears to be an opportunity missed.
The city administration appears to have squandered the opportunity afforded by a stringent nationwide lockdown that lasted more than two months.
Lax contact tracing, excessive bureaucracy, poor or no co-ordination with private health services and political wrangles have all led to a surge in numbers.
Smaller Indian cities appear to have done a far better job than the capital, the seat of Indias federal government. The southern city of Bangalore has been lauded for its contact-tracing efforts which have contained the infection, and Chennai (formerly Madras) has had relatively few deaths despite a surge in cases.
But much like the financial capital Mumbai which has also been hit hard by the virus, Delhi has been overrun with cases and its public hospitals, some of the best and biggest and best in the country, are struggling.
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