Kamepalli, Kartik Shrinivas

Review on India’s crisis management: Sars-Cov-2 pandemic - IIPA Digest - 3(2), Apr-Jun, 2021: p.35-40

This paper reviews the second wave of SARS-CoV-2 outbreak management in India by exploring the combination of scientific, political, public, and media responses. A lack of coordination between lawmakers and governing bodies, institutional claim-makers, and the media, between scientific and political levels suggests broader mismanagement of the Covid crisis during the second phase of the outbreak. Unless strict action is taken to combat this crisis millions of lives across the world are threatened. Many policymakers are facing a critical time as SARS-CoV-2 is slowly affecting the millions in the countryside. Despite the prolonged warnings from researchers and medical experts, decision makers are not taking things as grave as they have been predicted. This paper contributes towards informing lawmakers on significant lessons learned from the management of the SARS CoV-2 in the second-most populous country in the world. – Reproduced