Municipal workers sanitize at platform at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in the view of rising number of COVID-19 cases, in Mumbai. | Image Courtesy: PTI Photo
With lockdown, vaccination drive and stringent rules, Maharashtra government is able to control COVID-19 cases. The cases are reducing day by day in the state. Maharashtra reported 67,160 cases of COVID-19 disease and 676 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the state health bulletin on Saturday. With this, the total active cases in the state reached 6,94,480. As many as 63,928 people have died due to the virus in the state so far.
Maharashtra, which continues to be the worst-hit state by the pandemic, now has 42,28,836 infections in total and 34,68,610 patients have recovered from the disease so far.
The Central government has approved the supply of 4,35,000 vials of Remdesivir to Maharashtra till April 30th. Meanwhile, the vaccination drive is going smoothly in the state. Above all Serum Institute of India (SII) has assured Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray of ‘maximum support’ in vaccinating the people in the state at the earliest, chief minister’s office (CMO) said on Saturday.
Maharashtra is the worst-hit state in the country with 6,94,480 active cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is now seeing a dip in the cases.
To curb this surge, the Centre has asked states to ramp up their vaccination drive and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has on several occasions reiterated the need to spread awareness among the masses and ensure people get both their doses of the vaccine. May 1 onwards, everyone above the age of 18 will be considered eligible for getting a vaccination.
Still from a Netflix documentary ‘Searching for Sheela’ featuring Ma Anand Sheela | Image Courtesy: Netflix
Today there are hundreds of documentaries and news reports and interviews of Sheela Ambalal Patel, who later become Ma Anand Sheela. She was the youngest of six children of the Gujarati couple Ambalal and Maniben Patel. At the age of 18, she moved to the United States and pursued her education there.
Her father was a staunch follower of a self-styled Godman, Acharya Rajnish.
That’s how she was introduced to Osho. In 2018, the documentary Wild Wild Country was released, which includes interviews with Sheela, she says her father insisted she stay in Rajnish Aashram. that how later on she became the spokeswoman of the Rajneesh movement.
Sheela married Marc Harris Silverman, an American and She moved to India in 1972 to pursue spiritual studies with her husband. They became disciples of the Indian guru Rajneesh and Sheela took the name Ma Anand Sheela. After her husband died, Sheela married a fellow Rajneesh follower, John Shelfer.
As the secretary of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh from 1981 through 1985, she managed the Rajneeshpuram ashram in Wasco County, Oregon, United States.
In 1986, she pleaded guilty to attempted murder and assault for her role in the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack. Not everyone at Rajneeshpuram was comfortable with Sheela’s attitude and the way she handled public relations.
And many people were not happy with her administration at the Ranch. In fact, quite a few people left. But Osho himself is probably to blame, at least partly. He left Sheela with total power for too long. He encouraged her to be provocative with the media. He enjoyed being provocative himself.
During the first winter of the sannyasins arriving at the Ranch, some of the residents living in the little town of Antelope, 20 miles from the Ranch complained that the sannyasins who had moved into the town were holding parties and complained that the sannyasins’ lovemaking was too loud for them.
Anti-Rajneeshpuram meetings were held in nearby towns, and the atmosphere became tense. Sheela, and some of the other coordinators used to tell people that every instruction she gave came from him which was later found out to be untrue. She was like the dictator, of the commune and if they tried to disobey or argue with her, they would likely get into trouble or be punished.
She also had another group of women working underneath her, who shared her living space, who had been given the top positions of power in the commune. These were known as the ‘moms’. However, Osho did not encourage or order Sheela to carry out the many crimes that she and her gang carried out or planned to carry out to ‘protect’ the commune.
In my opinion, after watching Wild Wild Country Documentary and listening to her interviews and conference clips, it is quite clear that she proved to be a misfortune for Osho in the United States.
After breaking his silence Osho expressed a very compassionate outlook about the local Oregonians and did not intend to take over the Antelope that she tried to do. I believe that if Osho had gone in public silence, the local Oregonians would probably have reconciled well with the commune.
The local battles between Sheela along with her gang and the people living over there sadly created a huge mania about Osho across the United States and in reaction to which he was eliminated and deported in the end.
1986, she pleaded guilty to attempted murder and assault for her role in the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack. She was sentenced to 20 years in
Federal prison and paroled after 39 months. Sheela later moved to Switzerland and purchased two nursing homes.
Sheela told aka Swami Krishna Deva during a trip to India which they took in 1985, that she had injected her first husband Marc Harris Silverman with an injection that caused his death. After prison, Sheela married Urs Birnstiel, a Swiss citizen, who died of AIDS shortly after their marriage.
In 1981, Rajneesh appointed her as his personal assistant. In the same year, she convinced Rajneesh to leave India and establish an ashram in the United States. In July 1981, Rajneesh Foundation International purchased the 64,000-acre (260 km2) Big Muddy Ranch in Wasco County, Oregon, which became the site for the development of the Rajneeshpuram commune. Overnight the commune became popular, Hollywood stars to big businessmen all became part of it. By 1984, the ashram was coming into increasing conflict with local residents and the county commission.
With all criminal activities, jealousy and revenge Sheela started losing her grip on Osha. She was extradited to the US in February on charges of immigration fraud and attempted murder. Sheela pleaded guilty to setting fire to a county office and wire-tapping at the commune. For these crimes, Sheela was sentenced to three 20-year terms in federal prison, to be served concurrently. Also, she was fined USD 470,000.
The lady who enjoyed the peaks of power lost it all due to jealousy, hate anger and the scheme, today once again in demand by filmmakers.
In the past eight days, the Aam Aadmi Party Mumbai team has helped 2000+ patients who have had a COVID emergency. It may not seem like a very large number in the sea of this Pandemic, but in a resource-starved city, we are proud and relieved of every single life we could help save.
When, in the first two weeks of April, AAP Mumbai leaders, like Preeti Sharma Menon and Ruben Mascarenhas, were overwhelmed with the calls for help; AAP Mumbai Task Force Members Mithila Naik Satam, Kunal Pawar, and Manu Pillai conceptualized and launched the #AAPDegaSaath Helpline 7718812200, on 15th April 2021.
AAP leaders and volunteers take calls of citizens who seek hospital admission, move to an ICU, oxygen, medicines, and/or plasma. They then liaise with the authorities, hospitals, doctors, and suppliers on behalf of the patient, and resolve the issues.
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AAP is calling out to people who are ready to help Mumbaikars in this pandemic. You will have to give few hours daily from your home to work on the AAP Covid Helpline.
In these past 8 days, they have received 700 calls daily on average, and they have managed to resolve approximately 300 cases daily. Led by Ruben Mascarenhas, the team includes so many more – youngsters like Manu Pillai, Mithila Naik Satam, Pravin Lotankar, Kunal Pawar, Ratnabh Mukerjei and senior leaders like Sumitra Srivastava and Dwijendra Tiwari who are working night and day.
“It is indeed sad that we cannot resolve all cases, because there is an acute shortage of all things, starting from O2 beds. Yesterday, the scene was so tragic that hospitals were hesitant to admit very serious patients, whose oxygen requirement was high, as they just didn’t have enough oxygen,” said Preeti Sharma Menon.
The volunteers are going through stress, heartache and even breakdowns, when they are unable to save a life, so much so that they are now starting counselling for them to deal with this trauma.
“Yet, the need to help people in this biggest crisis that has hit our beloved Mumbai, bigger even than terror attacks push us to do more and more.
We are sharing our story in the hope that more people choose to help out, and more people know there are many fellows’ beings that care.” said an AAP member who is volunteered to help COVID-19 patients.
“We are so relieved that, today, many NGOs like We the People Foundation, Switch India, and activists have joined us in this work, as well as many media persons. This not just extends the volunteer pool, but has also enabled us to set up a team of Doctors, under Dr Santosh Karmarkar, and young doctors with Switch India, who are calling and counselling every patient and their kin. When the administration is crumbling under the weight of policies, we, the citizens, are stepping up. Together we can!”, said AAP team member.
While there is growing concern over the unavailability of Remdesivir vials, some pharmacists are doing black-marketing on WhatsApp, while half a dozen states are currently reporting a shortage.
A person named Niraj Dnyaneshwar Khalkar, of Lakshya Pharma, is marketing Remdesivir on social media networks and WhatsApp, asking customers to call on 7387418909 for delivery of the vial.
There many forwards doing round that says Remdesivir is available to buy with them, but on the other hand black-marketing of Remdesivir has rampant in the city. This is a matter of concern since many who received the first dose in the first week of March when the vaccination drive started are supposed to take the second dose this week or in the next few days as per the vaccine protocol issued by the Health Ministry.
Recently Tulinj police arrested three people from Mira Road in Thane district of Maharashtra for black-marketing Remdesivir. The police also recovered three vials of Remdesivir and stock worth Rs 2.25 lakh from their possession. Police officer Rajendra Kamble said, “The detained accused were selling a vial of a Remdesivir for Rs 12,500.”
The officer continued, “This gang was eyeing the people in search of vaccines and the rates were quoted as per the emergency of buyer”.
Later Tulinj police had laid a trap on the orders of Mira Bhayandar Police, sent a fake customer for the purchase of Remedesivir vials and caught them. Earlier on Monday, Mumbai Police and Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) teams raided two locations and recovered 2,200 vials of Remdesivir.
The demand for Remdesivir has increased in India and the hospitals have been grappling with depleting supply of the antiviral drug amid surging COVID-19 cases. India is currently witnessing a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
When Afternoon Voice called Lakshya Pharma posing as a patient, first they asked how much supply and where we want the delivery. Then they said each vial would cost Rs 10,000, after a lot of bargaining they came down to a final price of Rs 9000. We thought they would ask us to transfer money but surprisingly their phone was switched off ever since we contacted them.
Similarly, main agents are making rounds around hospitals for the black-marketing of vaccines. Oxygen, essential drugs and now vaccines, everything is easily available in the black market.
Nashik Oxygen Tragedy: High-level probe ordered with Rs 5 lakh relief for kin of deceased 7
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has ordered a high-level probe into the entire incident while also announcing relief of Rs.5 lakh for the next of kin of each of the deceased patients over the leakage of oxygen at a municipal hospital in Nashik that claimed the lives of 24 people.
“While the incident has shocked everyone, it was also an eye-opener for the state administration about the need to tread cautiously at every phase of the battle with COVID-19. For over a year now we have been facing up to the COVID-19, wave after wave. The loss of lives due to carelessness is very annoying in the wake of the fact that all available doctors and medical personnel have been working tirelessly night and day to save the lives of patients. It is not merely enough to express mourning and consoling the relatives of the patients. The state administration will need to burn the midnight lamp, treading very cautiously to ensure such an incident, that could deplete the entire morale of the health system, is not repeated in the future,” Thackeray said.
“There is no need here to emphasize the importance of oxygen in combating the current wave of the Coronavirus. We are working day and night to ensure the supply of this life-sustaining. We have issued instructions at almost every meeting that there should be no leakages in the oxygen supply despite which this incident has occurred. I have instructed the Maharashtra Chief Secretary (Sitaram Kunte) to probe the entire incident and affix due to responsibility on those found guilty of carelessness,” the Chief Minister said.
Thackeray also instructed that careful handling of the oxygen stocks and its rational and proper usage protocols henceforth and emphasized that the shortfall in oxygen supply to patients should be immediately resolved.
On Wednesday, in a tragic incident at least 24 patients who were on life support have lost their lives in Nashik’s Dr Zakir Hussain Hospital owing to an acute shortage of oxygen tankers.
India reported on Thursday 314,835 new cases of the COVID-19 over the previous 24 hours; the highest daily increase recorded anywhere, as its second wave and similar surges elsewhere in the world raised new fears about the virus.
Hospitals across northern and western India including the capital, New Delhi, have issued notices to say they have only a few hours of medical oxygen required to keep COVID-19 patients alive.
More than two-thirds of hospitals had no vacant beds, according to the Delhi government’s online database and doctors advised patients to stay at home.
“COVID-19 has become a public health crisis in India leading to a collapse of the healthcare system,” Krutika Kuppalli, assistant professor at the Division of Infectious Diseases, the Medical University of South Carolina in the United States, said on Twitter.
The previous record one-day rise in cases was held by the United States, which had 297,430 new cases on one day in January, though its tally has since fallen sharply. India’s total cases are now at 15.93 million, while deaths rose by 2,104 to reach a total of 184,657, according to the latest health ministry data.
Television showed images of people with empty oxygen cylinders crowding refilling facilities in the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh as they scrambled to save relatives in hospital.
“We never thought a second wave would hit us so hard,” Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, the executive chairman of Biocon & Biocon Biologics, an Indian healthcare firm, wrote in the Economic Times.
“Complacency led to unanticipated shortages of medicines, medical supplies, and hospital beds.” India has launched a vaccination drive but only a tiny fraction of the population has had the shots.
Authorities have announced that vaccines will be available to anyone over the age of 18 from May 1 but India won’t have enough shots for the 600 million people who will become eligible, experts say. Similar surges of infections elsewhere, in South America in particular, are overwhelming health services there.
Health experts said India had let its guard down when the virus seemed to be under control during the winter when new daily cases were about 10,000, and it lifted restrictions to allow big gatherings.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has come in for criticism for holding packed political rallies for local elections and allowing a religious festival at which millions gathered.
On Thursday, despite the biggest public health emergency the country has faced in a generation, people were voting in the eastern state of West Bengal for a new state assembly in an election that Modi has been campaigning in.
“It’s a festival of democracy and everyone is participating. You can see the queues,” said Krishna Kalyan, a candidate from Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
Police checking vehicles at Mulund toll naka amid travelling restrictions for non-essential travellers in the state. | Afternoon Voice / Akshay Redij
The Maharashtra government on Wednesday issued several new restrictions including a ban on inter-city and inter-district travel and curbs on office attendance in an attempt to bring the spiralling coronavirus infections under control.
Central, state and local governing body offices shall function with 15 per cent attendance. But emergency services dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic will be exempted from this rule.
Other government and private offices, allowed to operate as per the earlier rules, can function with 15 per cent strength or five people – whichever is more, stated the notification.
As to inter-city and inter-district travel ban, exemption will be made for travel for medical emergency, essential services, funeral or medical attendance, the government said.
Contrary to expectation, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray did not announce the new restrictions himself, unlike last time. The government notification also did not use the world ‘lockdown’.
The new restrictions under the government’s ‘Break- the-Chain’ program will come into effect from Thursday 8 pm and will remain effective till 7 am on May 1, the notification said.
What the new restrictions are like:
Govt / Private offices
All government offices (State, Central, under local authority) to operate only with 15 per cent attendance except for emergency services directly connected to the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. Other essential services office also to have 15% staff or 5 people whichever is less.
Private buses can ply with 50% of seating capacity with no standing travellers.
Private Bus Operators
Bus service operator must restrict the stoppages to a maximum of two in a city and shall inform the local District Management Authority (DMA) about the same and the schedule. Local DMA may ask to change these if so desired.
At the stoppages where passengers are alighting all passengers shall be stamped on the hand for 14 days home quarantine. This stamping must be done by the operator.
Thermal scanners shall be used and anyone with symptoms shall be moved to corona care centres or to a hospital.
Local DMA may decide to do the RAT test at the alighting point by appointing one of the authorised labs to give these services. The cost of the test, if so decided shall be borne by the passenger/ service provider.
If an operator is found to be flouting these guidelines, then DMA may levy a fine of 10000/-. Repeated defaults will lead to the cancellation of the license to operate till the end of notification of COVID-19 as a pandemic.
The local Disaster Management Authority can waive off the rules regarding mandatory stamping for buses arriving from certain origins as per the local conditions.
Public Transport
Only the following categories of people will be allowed to use local trains, metro and monorail services (excepting long-distance trains):
All government personnel (state/ central/ local), tickets/ passes to be issued to the above category of personnel on the basis of a Government-issued identity card only.
All medical personnel (Doctors/ paramedics/ lab technicians/ hospital and medical clinic staff etc). Tickets/ passes to be issued on the basis of an identity card issued by the concerned medical organization.
Any persons needing medical treatment or specially-abled persons and one person accompanying the needy.
State government or local government-owned public buses shall ply at 50 per cent of the capacity with no standing passengers.
Marriage function
The marriage ceremony may be conducted only as a single event in a single hall not extending beyond 2 hours with a maximum of a total of 25 persons attending the same. Any family seen to be flaunting the restraints or not following these in letter and spirit may be fined Rs 50000/-, and any location that is misused or is defaulting in the spirit of the restrictions shall be closed till the promulgation of COVID-19 as a disaster remains in force.
Private Travellers
Private Passenger transport excluding buses can ply only for emergency or essential services or valid reasons with driver plus of the seating capacity. These are not expected to be inter-district or inter-city and should be confined to the city of residence Of the travellers. Inter-district or inter-city travel is allowed only if required for performing an essential service or in case of medical emergencies or attending unavoidable events like funerals or severe sickness of family. Anyone flouting the order in letter or spirit shall be punishable by fine of Rs 10000/-.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 67,468 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking its tally beyond the 40 lakh mark. With 568 more patients succumbing to the deadly contagious virus, the death toll increased to 61,911.
Navy hospital INHS Asvini at Colaba is stressed with a lack of oxygen supply. Oxygen suppliers are not able to meet the demand; many hospitals are sending their vehicles to oxygen suppliers and waiting in queues for hours and days.
The lack of oxygen has also hit one of the largest Army/Navy hospitals, where many aged and retired Army-Navy staff are undertaking COVID treatment at INHS Asvini. The state has never seen such a crisis and severe scarcity of oxygen cylinders.
A doctor from Mohit Hospital in Borivali told Afternoon Voice, “We send our vehicle almost every day to various oxygen companies, for our COVID-19 patients, but they return empty hand in spite waiting for one long day, the second day again they try their best.”
The shortage of oxygen to hospitals in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) has hit not just private and civic centres, but also defence hospitals who have been standing in line outside manufacturing companies. There are restrictions and new rules but hospitals of state are struggling every day with one or the other challenges and the biggest crisis right now is Oxygen.
Maharashtra has added 62,097 new cases to its tally on Tuesday; Mumbai reported a slight dip, recording 7,214 new cases. At the state cabinet meeting, many ministers suggested the state push for a harder lockdown for another fortnight since the numbers were still rising.
The largest oxygen manufacturing company Phoenix Gas Limited in Turbhe saw dozens of trucks and mini tempos waiting outside to fill their oxygen cylinders.
Medical superintendent SP Kalantri at Kasturba Hospital in Wardha, Maharashtra said, “I am nervous about whether hospitals will have the capacity to provide enough oxygen to patients with COVID-19, we have 934-beds. The local administration has asked him to create 200 oxygen-beds by May, up from the 100 they had earlier requested”.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Director, Randeep Guleria at a press conference said, “Several of the patients can be saved by giving just one treatment, that is by giving them oxygen but right now even oxygen is out of supply and that is a matter of concern.”
“About fifteen per cent of all Covid-19 patients with “severe infection” will require oxygen while five per cent with “critical infection” will need a ventilator, the World Health Organization has said. The rest of the 80 per cent will be symptomless or mildly ill and will not need oxygen”, Guleria added.
Despite seeing 3,000 patients daily, on average, Kasturba Hospital does not have an oxygen tank on campus with piped liquid oxygen. Their regular supply of large oxygen cylinders comes by truck from a vendor about 50 km away. The cylinders are docked in an “oxygen bank” on their campus. The oxygen reaches wards and the intensive care unit via copper pipes.
Medical oxygen is supplied through several methods. In well-established set-ups, liquid oxygen is filled into large tanks built into the ground, then supplied via a network of pipelines that reach an output point on a wall near a patient’s bed.
Patients can be directly connected to the oxygen supply as and when required. Piped oxygen networks are more automated, reducing the chances of human error, but many medical establishments in India, especially those in smaller cities and towns, depending on cylinders. An adequate supply of cylinders is the biggest problem for medium, small and rural hospitals.
An unfortunate incident from Nashik took the lives of 22 COVID patients after an oxygen tanker leak 12
An unfortunate incident took lives of at least 22 people when an oxygen tanker leak incident at Dr Zakir Hussain Hospital in Maharashtra’s Nashik district on Wednesday.
“It is an unfortunate incident. We are trying to get a detailed report. We have ordered an enquiry as well. Anyone found responsible will not be spared,” Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Minister Rajendra Shingane told media persons.
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis termed the incident as “terrible” and demanded an enquiry into the tragedy. “What happened in Nashik is terrible. I demand that the other patients be helped and shifted if needed. We demand a detailed enquiry,” he told a news agency.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays condolences
PM Modi says the incident is heart-wrenching and he is anguished by the loss of lives.
“The tragedy at a hospital in Nashik because of oxygen tank leakage is heart-wrenching. Anguished by the loss of lives due to it. Condolences to the bereaved families in this sad hour,” PM Modi tweeted.
The tragedy at a hospital in Nashik because of oxygen tank leakage is heart-wrenching. Anguished by the loss of lives due to it. Condolences to the bereaved families in this sad hour.
Amit Shah expressed deepest condolences to the family members of patients who lost their lives in the incident.
”I am distressed to hear the news of the accident of oxygen leak in a hospital in Nashik. I express my deepest condolences to those who have lost their loved ones in this accident.
”I pray to God for the speedy recovery of all the other patients,” Shah tweeted in Hindi.
नासिक के एक अस्पताल में ऑक्सिजन लीक होने से हुई दुर्घटना का समाचार सुन व्यथित हूँ। इस हादसे में जिन लोगों ने अपनों को खोया है उनकी इस अपूरणीय क्षति पर अपनी गहरी संवेदनाएं व्यक्त करता हूँ। बाकी सभी मरीजों की कुशलता के लिए ईश्वर से प्रार्थना करता हूँ।
An oxygen tanker leaked while tankers were being filled at Dr Zakir Hussain Hospital here today. Officials were also present at the spot and an operation to contain the leak is underway. Several states are facing a shortage of medical oxygen, especially Maharashtra.
58,924 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Maharashtra in the last 24 hours, according to the state health ministry. As many as 52,412 people recovered in the said period and 351 died. The total case tally reached 38,98,262 while the death toll reached 60,824.
You must be thinking the news drive may bring a bit of change but there is nothing like that, Vaccinations are on and will continue as before in the government of India vaccination centres free of cost to the eligible population – healthcare and frontline workers and all people above 45 years of age. Right now, there are specific criteria for vaccination but slowly, the government is extending the range.
More people will be covered under the ongoing nationwide Covid-19 vaccination program, which started on January 16. There has been demand from all experts and states badly affected by the coronavirus disease. Amid the ongoing surge in the number of daily cases, leaders and chief ministers of Maharashtra and Delhi had urged PM Modi to relax the age restriction or administer the COVID-19 vaccine. From May 1, everyone above the age of 18 will become eligible for COVID-19 vaccines.
India started the world’s largest vaccination drive with two vaccines – Covishield and Covaxin. Earlier this month, Russia’s Sputnik V was given emergency use authorization by India’s drug regulator. Under the third phase of the vaccination drive beginning next month, the vaccine manufacturers would supply 50 per cent of their monthly Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL) released doses to the central government and would be free to supply the remaining 50 per cent doses to state governments and in the open market.
Manufacturers would have to make an advance declaration of the price for 50 per cent supply that would be available to the state governments and in the open market before May 1, 2021. Based on this price, state governments, private hospitals, industrial establishments, etc. would be able to procure vaccine doses from the manufacturers.
The government said procurement, eligibility, administration of coronavirus vaccines is being made flexible in Phase 3 of the world’s largest vaccination drive. COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers have been incentivized to further scale up production; attract new national and international players.
Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic back in March 2020, the virus has claimed millions of lives globally and that kept on increasing until 2021, the second wave was too brutal. Lack of infrastructure has crippled many lives.
The pandemic has wedged almost every corner of life, causing global economies to a kiosk, changing the way we work and interact with our loved ones, and stretching healthcare systems to the limit. Governments around the world have been forced to implement harsh restrictions on human activity to curb the spread of the virus.
