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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu illustrates how the teflon coating that seemed to accompany the Narendra Modi government is coming off with the out-of-control second wave of the pandemic.
Alok Nirantar with a grim representation of how bodies of Covid victims have been immersed in water or left on the ghats in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, because of poverty and stigma associated with the disease.
P. Mahmud illustrates the Modi government’s monumental failure of providing reliable Covid data, and how all other monuments are dwarfed in comparison.
R. Prasad notes how the Centre justified its decision in the Supreme Court to export Covid vaccines while failing to secure enough doses for its own population.
E.P. Unny comments on the resignation of virologist Shahid Jameel as the head of INSACOG — a forum established by the Centre to detect the variants of Covid.