well deep to go to sanny is an epidemiologist of the london school of medicine and dentistry a welcome to the w the world health organization says india's been hit by a perfect storm of mass gatherings contagious a variance and low vaccination rates of what could the indian government have done to prevent this becoming a crisis. well i would certainly add in computer government to that but fixed this crisis has actually been unfolding for the last 6 weeks i'm all for relief every we've been seeing exponential rises in many states in india and no action has been taken by government what's really puzzling is that even now when the exponential rise a continuing racing doubling of cases every 5 to 6 days there's no action being taken for restrictions and up downs most days and we've reached here in what west they already have been election rallies until very recently it's still not in lockdown the elections are going ahead most states still only have weekend curfews or 9 time curfews and none of that is sufficient to curb the spread of the pandemic and what's even worse is that the impact

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phil: an epidemiologist at the london school of medicine and dentistry joins me now. welcome to dw. india has been hit by a perfect storm of mass gatherings, contagious variants, and low vaccination rates. what could the indian government have done to prevent this becoming a crisis? >> we will certainly at the indian government to that perfect storm. this crisis has been building for the last six weeks or more. it has been on the horizon for many states in india for weeks, and the government has not taken action. we continue to see a doubling of cases every five or six days. there's no action being taken for restrictions or lockdowns in most states. elections are going ahead. most states still only have weekend for nighttime curfews -- weekend or nighttime curfews. the number of deaths is only a reflection of cases from about three weeks ago. we know deaths always lag. we know it will continue to get worse unless we do something to actually contain infection at this point in time. what happens next is entirely dependent on what we do now. phil: that's quite a condemnation. does that

well deep to go to sanny is an epidemiologist at the london school of medicine and dentistry a welcome to the w the world health organization says in just been hit by a perfect storm of mass gatherings contagious a variance and low vaccination rates of what could be indian government have done to prevent this becoming a crisis. i would certainly add in computer government to that but fix this crisis has actually been unfolding for the last 6 weeks so i'm all for relief every we've been seeing exponential rises in many states in india and no action has been taken by government what's really puzzling is that even now when exponential rise a continuing racing doubling of cases every 5 to 6 days there's no action being taken for restrictions and opt out of most days and we've reached here in what west bank already have been election rallies until very recently it's still not a lot done elections are going ahead most states still only have weekend curfews or 9 tenths of use and none of that is sufficient to curb the spread of the pandemic and what's even worse is that the impact is in terms

of people dying continues to rise there on says can't come quickly enough. well joining us now from london is dick de good of sonnie she's a senior lecturer at the london school of medicine in dentistry and i'm at the daimyo i just miss going to sunny thanks for coming on we're seeing record after record in the past week of reported infections in india how do we explain this particular development. i think can be explained to a combination of factors it's very clear that rises exponentially rises have been happening for 6 weeks now although it's been picked up by the media now because of the devastating situation we're seeing. it's been following this trajectory which has been quite predictable for 6 weeks and no action has been taken to cover that and i think that's a key reason this is what we're seeing is a mitigated spread spread which has not been caused by don't downs or substantive descriptions i think the danger is also probably an important fact this is a vein that seems to have increasing frequency quite rapidly in at least some parts of the net maharashtrian best i'd call it and it seems there is in frequency even against a background of the so-called u.k. baby and so b. 117 w