Mystery of the Missing Cases
- Jashodhara and Abhijit The second wave of Covid suddenly overwhelmed the entire nation towards the end of the month of April 2021. It was not long since the Indian Prime Minister had declared victory over Covid at the World Economic Forum that the cases started to rise once again. While the first wave in 2020 had seen the peak of a little less than 1 lakh new cases daily, this year between mid-February and mid- April the rate of increase was far in excess: in fact, by early May 2021, more than 4 lakh new cases were being detected every day! The virus has mutated and is now much more infective than earlier. The second wave was first felt in Maharashtra but soon Delhi faced the brunt of the second wave. Around that time, we were planning to move our household to Mukteshwar in Nainital District, Uttarakhand. Almost everything had been packed, most furniture been disposed off and we were negotiating with the movers, when on the 19 th of April, lockdown was announced in Delhi. The infect...