First and foremost, thanks to all our well wishers around the world for their kind enquiries. Your concern for us reiterates our belief in our core Indian ideology, 'Vasudaiva Kutumbakam', the world is one family.
Let us reassure you that all members of our team are in good health. As a matter of safety, our team is on a WFH mode and will continue delivering from their remote locations.
What we are now seeing in India is a cut copy paste of what happened in the UK a few months ago, when they had the second wave. Having said that, we would say we are faring quite well, not withstanding the magnitude of Wave 2. General elections had to be held in some states as there is no easy provision for extension of the legislature.
Further, the size of the wave here is amplified due to sheer absolute numbers. Like every where in the world, there is a fatigue amongst the population here and thus non compliance from some citizenry to an extent also is a contributing factor.
On a brighter note, as of today, more than 150 million slightly ( in least number of days) i.e more than 10% of the population have been vaccinated, many for two doses. The biggest age group 18 + is also being vaccinated as we speak. In absolute numbers, we are at par with US and China. The 18 - 35 age group is about 650 million. However we are the pharmacy of the world and we are increasing vaccine, medicine and O2 production by the day.
Innovative steps on a war footing are being implemented. For e. g. Like Drive In Movie theaters, we are having drive in vaccinations and first experiment of 800 cars was done last week in Mumbai. That is a innovation.
A democratic setup means information available freely, which to an extent also leads to over focus by some sections of the media on negative aspects alone.
Some countries have the advantage of no democracy.....One less agency to worry about and rebut.
At Basiz, we are all working remote as we have been doing for the past 12 + months and have been delivering to our clients. Our team has been diligent and continues to be so.
Once everybody is vaccinated by September 2021, we shall resume offices.
By that time we shall reach about 50% in vaccination. We have auxillary staff incase folks fall ill. We are with them in thick and thin.
Please find the article for your reading https://www.seshspeaks.com/india-fights-back-the-rest-is-hype.php
Hope you find it interesting. Please read the para stating that as an emergency measure, 4,000 rail coaches, equal to 64k beds, have been retrofitted to be isolation rooms. We would also invite your attention to the fact that temples have been converted to isolations when needed.
All this in in addition to many hospitals being expanded and built too. There are Jumbo centers too that are converted out of stadiums . These are all fallback to traditional hospitals.
As a result of all this, we here feel pretty confident of tackling this crisis and the global community is reciprocating our help given in the first wave.
As always, we pray that the world is rid of this scourge soon.
Please feel free to get in touch with me directly on sesha@basizfa.com if you need any information or clarification.
