More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, India is being crushed by a new surge of infections that is shattering global records.
The unprecedented explosion in cases came even after the country had fared relatively well against the pandemic until recently.
Experts point to a “perfect storm” of factors to explain why the country is being hit so hard all of a sudden.
The outbreak comes on the heels of the government allowing massive crowds to gather for Hindu religious festivals and political rallies before state elections — compounded by more relaxed attitudes about safety precautions and the emergence of new, more contagious strains of the virus.
“It’s almost like India hit a perfect storm,” S.V. Subramanian, a professor of population health and geography at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told USA Today.
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