In a 35-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Prof. Ashish Jha, who is Dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, said the Modi government’s “failure to respond to data is very concerning”. He said it must be explained by “the people in power”. He said India is owed “an explanation” by the government.
Prof. Jha said by early or, latest, middle March it was clear from the data that India was heading toward trouble and yet the government failed to respond “in any serious way”.
In The Wire interview Prof. Jha said the Kumbh Mela shahi snans, in March and April, when 2 or 3 million people gathered without masks or social distancing, could be counted as “the biggest super-spreaders in the history of this pandemic”.