India Covid-19 Cases Surge in Second Wave

Vaccine exports curbed to focus on India’s needs

By: John Elliott

India has been hit by a fresh surge of the Covid pandemic in the past month with a 51 percent weekly increase in new cases. This is the biggest spike since last October, with around 60,000 or more cases being reported daily, five times more than in early February and twice as many as three weeks ago.

It comes at a time when massive crowds…