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On 16/05/21 India's top virologist, Dr Shahid Jameel resigned from the chair of INSACOG.
Why did he resign?
Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG). Set up with 10 Govt Labs for genome sequencing on 21/12/20, a nationwide effort to sequence COVID-19 samples.
Stay. 1/24
Genome sequencing - A decoded blueprint of the virus/cell.
This info is used to build drugs and develop new vaccines.
It was found diff mutations of the virus had started emerging locally & a correlation of the surge in cases with the new variants.
So, INSACOG formed. 2/24
Dr Shahid Jameel was appointed to chair the INSACOG, a worldwide acknowledged virologist.
However, on 01/05/21 Reuters published the scientists in INSACOG informed the GOVT at the beginning of March,2021 that the new variant B.1.617 should be a matter of "Grave Concern." 3/24
This warning was conveyed to
Rajiv Gauba, the cabinet Secy who reports directly to PM of a new & more contagious variant taking hold in India but Govt didn't give heed to this.
05/05/21 Secy of DBT Renu Swarup told ET the scientists gave 'irresponsible statements'. 4/24
Renu Swarup, who has been a bureaucrat for the last 30 yrs told ET “never saw any report which said numbers will go very high.”
A scientist told the caravan report 01/01/22 after Reuters published their interview she charged them saying
"Tum logon ne yeh kya kar diya". 5/24
16/05/21 Dr Jameel resigned.
All these couldn't draw attention to any as the iron frame furnaces in the crematoriums across the country started melting amid the rush of corpses. A Chimney of a crematorium in Ahmedabad got cracked.
Social Media, a place for CRY & #SOS call. 6/24
Dr Jameel was not the first exit.
Dr Gagandeep Kang, one of India’s most eminent medical scientists, played a critical role in developing rotavirus vaccine, resigned in July 2020
A committee headed by her working to develop indigenous vaccine was disbanded before. 7/24
She cited personal reason for resignation.
However CARAVAN reported a witness told in a national task force meeting chaired by Dr VK Paul, a member of Niti Ayog, she "ASKED QUESTIONS" in 2 days the Committee she heading was disbanded.
In 2021 her name came again.
PEGASUS. 8/24
Dr VK PAUL became a familiar face during the COVID period giving press briefings & recommending home remedies such as chawanprash & kadha.
At a briefing on 24/4/20, he said on 16/5/20 there would be no new case of CORONA.
16/05/20 - 5000 new cases
22/5/20 - APOLOGY. 9/24
However, 2020 was eventful. When the news channels were busy on Tablighi Jamaat propaganda spread by another Govt bureaucrat Luv Agarwal (Joint Secy Health Ministry) on 01/04/20 one news didn't find space that related to NCDC (National Centre for Disease Control). 👇🏿 10/24
Across the world when the CDCs were leading the pandemic response India's NCDC went offline.
The withholding of info left scientists & researchers in the dark about the virus & its scale.
As reported Health Min refused to make data public saying he had "In-house Experts".11/24
In May 2020 The commerce Ministry had issued guidelines that labs could only import reagents duty-free if 20% of them were manufactured within India under Atmanirbhar Bharat scheme.
Several reagents used by Indian labs for the COVID-19 test had no Indian substitutes. 12/24
Several orders were struck for months, restriction was lifted only in Jan 2021.
Despite the INSACOG report & the situation turned from bad to worse Balram Bhargava DG, ICMR on 30/03/21 told NDTV
"There is no such thing as an Indian strain. There is no cause for panic". 13/24
"I spent weeks trying to figure out who reports to whom, unsuccessfully"- VIDYA KRISHNAN a global health reporter wrote.
30/04/21 over 900 Indian scientists helplessly appealed to the PM for access to data that could help them further study, predict & curb the virus. 14/24
In response Dr VijayRaghavan,
India's principal scientific advisor set up yet another committee, to decide which requests for data access were worthy of being accepted
An acknowledged scientist the 3rd hold this position in 2018, following APJ Abdul Kalam & R Chidambaram. 15/24
When the entire world was in restrictions Modiji in Davos (Jan, 2021) declared his victory over Corona.
Followed by Mass gathering naming Narendra Modi Stadium,
Election Rallies,
World's largest religious gathering KUMBH.
On 30/04/21 India became Vishwaguru. 👇🏿 16/24
As the citizens were without oxygen, treatment was turning into corpses around 300 top officials of Modiji participated in a workshop titled Effective Communications conducted by Abhishek Singh, the CEO of MyGov, focused on creating a positive image of the Govt. 05/05/21
17/24
The 90-minute workshop was to manage perception by effectively highlighting positive stories & achievements and making the government be "seen to be sensitive, bold, quick, responsive, hard-working" etc. as a presentation.
Prakash Javadekar was present in that session. 18/24
Corpses were floating on river, hospital packed, crematoriums jammed.
1st Modiji's appearance started fading. After 25/04/21 he disappeared straight 20 days.
Same, the most feared person in India.
In May, 2021 Student Unions filed a missing report against Amit Shah. 19/24
As the anger grew on social media it had to be controlled, maybe more than the Disease.
That the same day Modiji went to Agyatvas for 20 days NYT published Govt has ordered FB, Insta & Twitter to take down social media posts critical of its handling of the pandemic. 20/24
In Jan 2021, the Modi Govt had begun exporting COVID-19 vaccines.
By 9 May, India had fully vaccinated only 4% of its citizens but had delivered around 66 mill vaccine doses to 95 countries.
In May this project Vishwaguru had to stop. Now India was importing vaccine. 21/24
Amid this catastrophic pandemic, April, 21 India refused UN help saying it has its own integrated system.
July, 21 in reply to Parliamenterian Binoy Vishwam Min of state (EA) V. A. Murleedharan stated total 52 countries helped India during this pandemic
List given.👇🏿22/24
Never mind, on 8/2/22 MODIJI in Parliament, declared the Indian Govt’s efforts to fight COVID-19 were “appreciated globally” & called his GOVTs handling of the crisis a “national achievement.”
Now the next part of the course began, DENIAL, propaganda movies, speeches.
23/24
HINDI version of a poem by Parul Kakkar once hailed as the next big icon of Guj Poetry poured out her distress in a 14-line poem during those days on her FB page.
It angered the natives & 25K+ abuses reminded her of Aukaad/status a citizen in India actually hold.
Listen👇🏿24/24

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