Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come under fire for his government’s COVID-19 policies, which critics say are responsible for the deadly outbreak overwhelming the country, the Associated Press reported. India’s new COVID-19 cases reached more than 380,000 for two weeks in a row, putting the nation’s total at 20.7 million. Dr. Navjot Dahiya, vice president of the Indian Medical Association, called Modi a “super-spreader” for his failure to cancel the traditional Holi festival, which draws massive crowds, as well as cricket matches with tens of thousands of spectators. While Modi initially garnered praise for controlling the outbreak in 2020 by putting India’s 1.4 billion people in lockdown, his image is now tainted by a surge that has launched the country into crisis and killed an average of more than 3,500 people a day in the past week. “The system hasn’t collapsed. The government has failed. Perhaps ‘failed’ is an inaccurate word, because what we are witnessing is not criminal negligence, but an outright crime against humanity,” Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy said in a Guardian op-ed. “Virologists predict that the number of cases in India will grow exponentially to more than 500,000 a day.” Modi has put the… Read full this story
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