India has topped 2 million COVID-19 cases. Our report from Chennai, India shows the lockdown in March and the economic impact have hit the poorest Indians the hardest. 'In the midst of so much death, despair and depression, life does go on.'
She is anxiously awaiting the reopening of Marina Beach in India’s southernmost state, Tamil Nadu, where she used to earn Rs. 300 a day serving hot-from-the-oven snacks to visitors. With the beaches closed down and all congregations banned, starvation stares her in the face.
Industrial and commercial establishments have been permitted to function — but many are unable to find staff, most of whom were migrant laborers from distant states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, who have gone home after the lockdown after a struggle to stay alive and to find transport. Now that they are there, they are unable to find employment and are keen to return to their former workplaces; however, travel restrictions between states make this difficult.
‘People’s irresponsibility appears to know no bounds’ Chennai continues to be a hotspot, though one wouldn’t think so from people’s cavalier attitude toward mask-wearing and the absolute absence of social distancing, especially in crowded fish markets like Kasimedu. And some people who test positive furnish false addresses and mobile numbers, happily escaping the Chennai Corporation’s efforts to isolate them and prevent the virus’s spread. People’s irresponsibility appears to know no bounds, with infected people merrily going about with little concern for the huge numbers they are likely to infect, among whom may be elders with co-morbidities.
Doctors, nurses and other health-care workers, hailed as front-line warriors, face problems too. Imprisoned in their suffocating plastic suits for hours, they are overworked and underpaid, laying themselves open at every moment to the risk of infection.
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