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  Gasping for oxygen, scrambling to get a bed in the hospital, fighting for pyres in the cremation ground, fear overpowering the minds leading to hesitancy to step out of the house and facing the odds with the surging cases of COVID-19, this defines the lives of an ordinary citizen of India, for whom, this COVID wave has opened the floodgates of misery and helplessness. “Why the god has chosen my mother?” asked one, “Why don't even the doctors helping us?” asked the other. In between these questions, the moot point is, what could have been done differently for a continued retreat of the virus? In my previous article , I delve into the problem that India is facing in the present context and what has led to this problem. However, the need is felt to write this article for the sole purpose of what ought to be done to deal with the current situation. The article is based on the two conflicting ideas- first , an argument between lockdown v/s no lockdown, or to put it differently in t...

  With the resurgence of the second wave of COVID-19 in India hitting new heights in terms of the number of cases and fatality, the debate over life v/s livelihood has resurfaced to the fore. Given the benefit of the knowledge of hindsight of the first wave, the recent announcement by PM Narendra Modi to consider Lockdown as the measure of the last resort seems a sensible move given the economic cost it inflicts. However, the question remains, what has gone wrong this time? Why the biggest manufacturer of vaccines around the world reached this point and what needs to be done to curb this problem? To understand the rise of coronavirus, we first need to look at the data of the first wave. During the previous wave, cases started plateauing around the mid of September after which a decline was seen. Given the fact that as cases started declining in September and started increasing again in March, four reasons contributed to this disastrous situation. First , complacency and laxness s...