A deep dive into Varanasi's handling of Covid's second wave

Once witnessing long queues at cremation ghats, a desperate hunt on social media for oxygen cylinders, hospital beds and medical drugs, the Covid-19 situation in Varanasi now seems to be under control now.

Long queues at Varanasi's cremation ghats. A desperate hunt on social media for oxygen cylinders, hospital beds and medical drugs. That's how Varanasi responded to the explosion of coronavirus cases in the last week of April. But available data show the situation in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency is under control now.