Thoughts In A Wandering Mind

          The caseload of infections are progressively falling since a long time. The weekly average of cases is 38 thousand which is few thousands less than previous week. Hope we are saved from  any further calamity of bigger magnitude. As mentioned we need to be ahead of the virus to keep it at bay. The active cases are also reduced from 5 lakhs two weeks ago to 4.24 lakhs as of today. There are five states which are contributing heavily to the total toll. Maharashtra and Kerala alone are contributing more than 50% to the country-wide caseload. The focus should be on these few states going ahead.             Barring few grey areas, the daily infections are reducing, the active cases are coming down and importantly everything is gradually opening up. This defeats the catch -22 situation which I mentioned in the last post. Everyone asks what you want? Cases to go down with a bad economy or cases to go up with unrestricted move...

           The days of fewer cases are upon us these days. The caseload is falling since almost last two months. But the reduction has been very nominal in the last week. The average of cases is 46 thousand which is 4 thousand less than earlier week. Compared to the earlier fall, this is less. None the less, the infections and positivity rate are dropping. Now that the situation is improving, let us look at another important number which is the total active cases in the country. The active cases are nearly 5 lakhs which is a huge number in itself. Our priority and concentration should be to make it zero and get our country to the shores of virus-free zone. There are still few obstacles along the way which are: 1.Unlock measures by states 2. The other countries of the world are still registering infections.           Talking of the first point, it is a catch-22 situation of whether to lock or unlock. Y...