Second Wave Of Covid Has Hit India "Like A Tsunami": Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds.

The second wave of COVID-19 has hit India "like a tsunami", Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar Shaw has said, attributing the unprecedented spike in coronavirus cases to the recent state elections and religious festivals in the country. India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds. "This time around the second wave has hit like a tsunami. And the unfortunate part is it has not spared any part of our country," Kiran Mazumdar Shaw said during a virtual panel discussion on global vaccine equity organised by One Share World. "This time around both urban India and more frighteningly it is rural India that has also got infected because we did have a bunch of state elections and a number of religious festivals that have really, really added to this horrific surge," she said.