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Amid Lockdown Criticism, India’s Covid-19 Infections Overtake France

Jun 1, 2020 | Pratirodh Bureau

A man carries his son as he stands with others in a queue at a Railway reservation ticket counter after a few restrictions were lifted during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease in New Delhi on June 1, 2020

India’s cases of coronavirus crossed 190,000, the Health Ministry said on Monday, overtaking France to become the seventh highest in the world, as the government eases back on most curbs after a two-month-long lockdown that left millions without work.

With a record 8,392 new cases over the previous day, India is now behind the United States, Brazil, Russia, Britain, Spain and Italy, according to a Reuters tally.

Criticism has grown in recent days that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sudden lockdown of 1.3 billion Indians in March has failed to halt the spread of the disease while destroying the livelihoods of millions of people who depend on daily wages.

Community transmission is well underway among the population, a team of independent experts said, adding this would only get worse as public transport opens.

On Monday, thousands of people were packing into 200 new trains that resumed services across the country, most of them migrant workers and their families leaving metropolises such as Delhi and Mumbai for their homes in the hinterland.

“Had the migrant persons been allowed to go home at the beginning of the epidemic when the disease spread was very low, the current situation could have been avoided,” the Indian Public Health Association, Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine and the Indian Association of Epidemiologists said in a joint statement.

“The returning migrants are now taking the infection to each and every corner of the country; mostly to rural and semi-urban areas, in districts with relatively weak public health systems,” the experts said.

The number of deaths from COVID-19 stood at 5,394, still small compared to other countries with similar case loads, which the government says was partly because the lockdown had helped avoid an exponential rise in cases, giving hospitals space to treat patients.

Still, there are concerns that if the infections keep rising, especially in Delhi and Mumbai, the health system would be stretched.

Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced the sealing of the city’s borders to stop people from around the country flocking to its hospitals for a week. The city has 9,500 beds for COVID-19 patients but will run out of them quickly if people came from around the country for treatment, he said.

Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Health Ministry, Indian Association of Epidemiologists, Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine, Indian Public Health Association, Pratirodh, prime minister narendra modi

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