Bihar’s health system is collapsing, why PDS shops should provide rations to all, and a study links long-time cancer with risk of severe Covid-19-a roundup of news on how India is dealing with the pan
Current Affairs : Managing Covid-19
As Covid-19 cases surge, Bihar’s health system collapses – and VIP culture makes things worse: As the pandemic strikes Bihar, the state’s beleaguered health infrastructure is not being able to keep pace. If many are struggling to get tested, others who have tested positive are finding it tough to find a bed for treatment and isolation. In what many say is telling of the state of affairs, a senior state government had to allegedly spend a night on the footpath inside the premises of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Patna.
Gujarat, once a model healthcare system, is struggling with India’s worst Covid death rate:
In the Covid-19 pandemic, the state has registered the highest mortality rate in India — 4.38 per cent — which is considerably higher than the national average of 2.49 per cent. The total number of infections in the state now stands at 51,399, and on 20 July, it registered its highest single-day spike of 1,026 cases.
Aditi Mehta 