Why has the Corona crisis in India become a global concern

Arab Weather - The horrific scenes of the Corona crisis in India shocked the world, as the country is struggling with high cases of Coronavirus infection reaching record numbers with a shortage of medical equipment, and India faces the most violent second wave among the countries of the world, but the outbreak in India is not only a local crisis for the country But it is a global crisis .

"The virus does not respect borders, nationalities, age, gender or religion," says Dr. Sumiya Swaminathan, the chief scientist at the World Health Organization. "Unfortunately, what happens in India now will affect other countries."

The epidemic has revealed how interconnected the world is, and that infections reach very high levels in one country, increasing the possibility of spreading to other countries. Even with travel restrictions, multiple tests, and quarantines, an infection can still leak; And if the traveler comes from a place where the virus is spreading significantly, then he will have a greater chance to transmit the virus with him, in a recent flight from New Delhi to Hong Kong, 50 passengers were tested positive for the Coronavirus (Covid-19).

Global anxiety over the Corona crisis in India

There is another reason for the world’s concern about the high rates of infection in India, which is the mutations that have occurred to the virus. A new mutation appeared in the Corona virus in India, called the “double mutated”. The virus includes two main mutations, making it more transmissible and more able to evade the immune system. In the human body.

The greater the number of infections in a country, the greater the possibility of new variants emerging, because each single infection gives the virus an opportunity to develop, and other mutations may appear resistant to existing vaccines.

In order to limit the emergence of viral variants, it is necessary in the first place to prevent the reproduction of the virus in the human body, so the best way to control the variables is in fact to control the global amount of disease that we have at the present time, ”Director of the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (Cog-UK) ).

Lockdowns and social distancing measures will achieve this - but vaccination is vital, too.

This is happening slowly in India: so far less than 10% of its population has received the first dose of the vaccine and less than 2% have received the vaccination completely.

This is despite the fact that it is home to the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world - the Serum Institute of India. This is another reason why the increased number of cases in India will affect the rest of the world.