Headline management will not work

Today, our worst nightmare - the worst-case scenario - is playing out

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Coronavirus | Coronavirus Vaccine | Lockdown

Sunita Narain 

Sunita Narain

The pandemic has ebbed, but only in our mind’s attention space, and this is extremely unfortunate. The virus is ravaging now and has spread across the country. It has gone beyond big cities to remote towns and villages, where there is not even a semblance of health care, forget ventilators.

Now is when the impact is worse — people who have the infection are doubly, no, triply hit and hurt, devastated. They have no option but to go back to work. They cannot afford a lockdown. They are hit not only by the disease and the lack of health care facilities, they also have to fight ...

First Published: Sun, August 09 2020. 22:22 IST