Health
Anti-masking and community mobility alone can’t explain the second wave of Covid-19 in India – Scroll.in
Many experts think B.1.617, or what has been called the Indian double mutation, is behind the surge.
With more than 3,00,000 new Covid-19 cases a day and hospitals and crematoria facing collapse, Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called the situation in India beyond heartbreaking.
The central government has blamed the people for not following Covid-safe public health directives, but recent data shows mask use has only fallen by 10 percentage points, from a high of 71% in August 2020 to a low of 61% by the end of February.
And the mobility index increased…
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