[WSMDiscuss] Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic and its Devastating Impact

[Umakant]

Dear Friends

Greetings! The second wave ofCOVID-19 pandemic has proved to be highly devastating not only in terms of avery large number of people being reported dead but at the same time it hasalso impacted the economy adversely. It certainly would have far reachingconsequences. The real magnitude of its impact may not even be visible now. Howand in what multiple ways the COVID-19 pandemic would affect us, the future mayhave some answer to this question.    

 

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COVID-19:Report Reveals Severity of Food Crisis Faced by India’s Poor in 2020

Shinzani Jain, NewsClick.in, June02, 2021 

https://www.newsclick.in/COVID-19-Report-Reveals-Severity-Food-Crisis-Faced-India-Poor-2020

 

Report by prominent economist Jean Dreze and Anmol Somanchihighlights the severe economic distress and food crisis suffered by a vastmajority of Indian poor following the 2020 lockdown. It demands a stronger waveof relief measures to avoid a repeat of the crisis. 

 

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Second waveof Covid-19 has left migrant workers in India with no savings and few jobopportunities

Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend.com, June 02, 2021 

https://scroll.in/article/996337/second-wave-of-covid-19-has-left-migrant-workers-in-india-with-no-savings-and-few-jobs 

 

As India reported a record number of coronavirus cases anddeaths, the migrant crisis continued. 

 

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A MillionIndians Will Likely Have Died By the End of Second Covid Wave, Says PandemicResearcher

Karan Thapar in Conversation with Prof. Chinmay Tumbe, TheWire, June 01, 2021 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt8eItweEkc

 

The author of a highly regarded bookon the Indian death toll in the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic called The Age ofPandemics, who has also intensively studied the death toll during the presentCovid pandemic, says one million Indians are likely to die in the presentlycontinuing the second wave. Prof Chinmay Tumbe points out this figure is basedon “the most conservative extrapolations”. He adds the second wave is far fromover and both in terms of cases and deaths it’s still way ahead of the firstwave. Prof Tumbe also says the total death toll in both waves is likely to bein a range between 1.3 and 1.45 million. This means as Prof Tumbe points out,his estimate closely approximates the third of The New York Times projectionspublished last week, where the paper forecast 1.6 million estimated deaths andwhich the paper called “a more likely scenario”.

 

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My wholefamily was infected in India’s devastating coronavirus surge. Not all survived.

Niha Masih, The Washington Post, May 31, 2021 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/31/india-coronavirus-second-wave/ 

 

When the second waveof the virus struck India in April, its ferocity ravaged tens of thousands offamilies, including mine. The country quickly became the global epicenter ofthe pandemic, setting grim records every day only to break them again. 

 

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‘Thedead aren’t aware of the funerals they get’

Parth M. N., PARI,May 29, 2021 

‘The dead aren’t aware of the funerals they get’


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The pandemic hascompelled that funerals take place, physically and socially, in ways not seenbefore. They are now more about logistics than loss. PARI reports on these fromMaharashtra’s Osmanabad district. 

 

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With Regards 

Umakant, Ph. D 

New Delhi 



 






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