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India's second Covid-19 wave & interview with Surabhi Chopra on its impact on India

2021-05-07

India's second Covid-19 wave & interview with Surabhi Chopra on its impact on India

2021-05-07
Last Thursday, Hong Kong recorded the first local infections of the highly transmissible Covid-19 N501Y mutant strain. The first known cases involve a domestic helper and a 10-month-old baby in her care from a residential building in Tung Chung. Thousands of residents of that residential block were sent to quarantine. The government has since demanded that more than 370,000 foreign domestic helpers be tested for Covid-19 by this Sunday. With more variant cases being recorded, health experts warn that mutant strains are spreading in the community. Some caution the government against relaxing quarantine requirements for incoming travellers, which could – they worry - trigger a fifth wave of infections. Meanwhile, scientists at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University recently discovered that at least ten cases imported from India to Hong Kong in early April, involved the so-called double-mutant strain that is ravaging India. The Pulse has been talking to people on the frontline in Delhi to gain a first-hand impression of the effects of the latest wave of Covid-19.

With us to talk more about why India’s second wave of Covid-19 is so devastating and its impact on India, is Surabhi Chopra, associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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