On December 27, Delhi’s largest Covid hospital, the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP), began a mock drill to prepare for a possible surge in infections in the country. At the time, however, the hospital’s 450-bed Covid ward was empty, and in the entire capital, only 14 of over 8,000 Covid beds were occupied.
It is true that India is currently in a comfortable position even as countries like the US, Brazil, Japan, Korea, and especially China, battle a fresh spike in infections on account of the BF.7 Omicron sub-variant. On December 25, India had only 187 new Covid cases,
