Indian opposition politician Rahul Gandhi, the grandson of the former prime minister of the country of the Indira Gandhi, predicted the country, devastation, if the coronavirus epidemic will not be taken under control. He quotes the Reuters Agency.
The oppositionist wrote a letter to the head of the Government of India Narendre Modi with a request to introduce the National Locking, speed up the vaccination program and start tracking the infection and its mutations. The politician also stressed that if the wave of the virus is not taken under control, it will become a threat to the rest of the world.
“in India, every sixth person lives on the planet. The pandemic demonstrated that the size of our country, genetic diversity and the complexity make India fertile soil for a quick mutation of the virus,” wrote Gandhi.
The publication notes that on May 7, India has established another anti-advertet of the incidence of COVID-19. During the day, over 414 thousand cases of infection were recorded there, while more than 412 thousand cases were revealed in the country.