and i'm now joined by the delhi bureau chief chima good to see you what is driving be current surge of infections hi christine yes it came must want to shock people here because they spread it easing there be under the pandemic and then we have high numbers at the weekend what's driving it it's very alarming for the litigants utility and bill field is a host of new newton and variations of the virus which of english which are much more into just the and multiply much faster and they are transmitting tree times the rate then the in the 1st wave so that is big one in there and also. christine just people have become complacent the thought at the back end of it was behind them but the virus is very very much here and people are probably a girl appropriate measures right and every service comes as or perhaps has prompted state leaders to call on the prime minister narendra modi to open up the nations to more of the adult population how is that vaccination rollout going on. now this is the world's largest vaccination drive as india likes to see how it's expanded the vaccination program just

and our very own armory to chima is standing by in delhi where she is bureau chief amrita how are people coping. so the situation is atypical terrible numbers coming out of india another record spike in the number of new infections that was a to pretty rate in india across india is 21 percent in delhi it's 30 percent and in goa which is a tourist trap it's 50 percent and the positivity rate means that it is the number of people who test positive in relation to those who are being tested so that is a very high number and also the virus is spreading to different states in southern india carried no one really but in the 1st search is now showing a huge spike in numbers and resting gold especially at the city of calcutta showing a huge surge and that's where some of these election rallies base in delhi. record numbers of deaths that oxygen is still running on some of the smaller. is 2 s. . who are overnight and the high court of delhi has got involved it's criticised the indian government the central government and saying why isn't it increasing the supply of oxygen to the city of delhi that