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The virus has started spreading rapidly, due to complacency on the social distancing measures and mask-wearing policies.
Several hospitals are stretched beyond their capacities.
With 5 hospital beds per 10,000 population and 8 physicians per 10,000, the healthcare sector is not equipped for such a crisis.
States bearing the maximum load of the pandemic, are already falling short of health infrastructure and equipment, ranging from oxygen to ventilators.
More than 80% of the population does not have any significant health insurance coverage.
Approximately 68% has limited or no access to essential medicines.
India lags far behind in immunisations per capita having vaccinated only about one in 25 people, compared with almost one in two in Britain and one in three in the United States.
India’s soaring virus cases puts its position as a global supplier [of vaccines] at risk as it has had to hold back vaccine exports in order to maintain domestic supply
