“If India is not safe, I can tell you the world is not safe.”The second wave of COVID-19 has hit India "like a tsunami", Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar Shaw has said, attributing the unprecedented spike in coronavirus cases to the recent state elections and religious festivals in the country. India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds. “This time around the second wave has hit like a tsunami. “Part of the problem is with the India situation, India is one of our major suppliers. India at the start of this year, felt so complacent and confident that it was in fact, even donating vaccines to certain parts of the world before this second wave hit the country, said Ms. Mazumdar.

Source: The Hindu May 06, 2021 09:04 UTC