In a forthright and outspoken interview Prof. Srinath Reddy, the President of the Public Health Foundation of India and a member of the WHO’s Executive Committee handling the Solidarity Trials and a former head of Cardiology at AIIMS, says the increase in Covid-19 cases to over 236,000 on Saturday the 6th, placing India 6th in terms of overall cases and 3rd in terms of new cases, is worrying and calls for action by the government. At another point in the interview he said the increase was “alarming”. However, Prof. Reddy did add that given India’s population size such increases were to be expected. Asked whether the government was right in refusing to accept that India has entered the stage of community transmission Prof. Reddy said he did not want to get into semantics but added that India is seeing a rising number of cases and this could spread across the country. At one point in the interview he even said “we are dealing with community transmission”. The government, he added, prefers to see this in terms of several bush fires rather than one wild forest fire.

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