Ravibhahini is a member of Socialist Movement in Chennai, India
India has recorded more than 19 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 210,000 deaths during the pandemic, and the daily case numbers and deaths are climbing rapidly. On 10 February, at the start of the second wave, there were 11,000 new confirmed cases. Over the next 50 days, the daily average was around 22,000 new cases. But in April, case numbers rose sharply, the daily average reaching more than 350,000.