Rumours of delaying our rights being given back to us due to the Indian variant. Hopefully just that.
Cumulative deaths per million in India - around 190 people.
NHS backlog announced of 5 million patients waiting to start treatment by March 2021. Lives in danger.
What a mess.
Not sure where the India figures come from but it's reported that the India death figures are far higher than the figures being reported. Also India is a massive country. Covid is devastating certain highly populated areas but other huge areas of the country are relatively unaffected. If you use the full population of India in this figure it doesn't reflect the devastating impact on the badly affected areas like Delhi.
As for our country, the NHS backlog is massive and yes lives are in danger but there just wouldn't have been the capacity to keep all services running while also treating covid patients at the height of the pandemic. You'd have had to refuse to treat covid patients to be able to carry on with other services. Think it maybe gets forgotten but the NHS will have saved countless thousands of lives of covid sufferers with the drug, oxygen and critical care resources.
On another note, why were we so slow adding India to the red list ? Defies belief.