Its been a torrid two years and just over 11 months that countries around the world had to contend with the deadly Covid-19 pandemic with a wide range of variants that claimed nearly 7 million lives worldwide and infected over 64 crore people.
However with the advent of vaccines produced by several multinational companies as well as governments of countries, at present the disease is under control in most of the world.
China was the first to report cases of Covid-19 and that country managed though a zero-tolerance strategy to rein in fatalities, but it is an irony of sorts that though the rest of the world did not resort very strict lock downs, still China two days back reported 40,000 cases of infection.
Under normal circumstances, the zero degree of tolerance should have resulted in complete eradication of the virus, but surprisingly China has now turned out to be the victim of the highest number of infections. Does this indicate that over emphasis on controlling the pandemic might not have been the right thing to do as is evident from the Chinese model?
