India's festive season stokes COVID-19 concerns | COVID-19 Special

A month-long season of festivities in India is raising concerns about the spread of COVID-19. Festivals mean large crowds, and with some 287 million people having had two vaccine shots, many feel confident enough to go out and celebrate. Health experts fear: these mass gatherings could turn into superspreader events.

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[Tammissa]

Why do people wear masks that don’t fit? If your nose isn’t covered then why bother wearing one?

[vinithgowda]

0:23 such an hypocrite 🤣. herself not wearing mask yet still complaining about others.

[ronpagala]

Year 2050: The covid Alpha Centauri variant and your mandatory 3000th booster shot is due!

[Sathish_]

people are freezing due to power cuts in Germany, dw should be more concerned about that😅

[roleplayinglife]

Do one segment on Europe, America during Christmas.

[robinhood]

The audience is strictly limited. 4 million max.

[SuperSanic..]

how many festives you want?
India: YES

[aiwenchew]

Wait didn't the same exact thing happen during the major outbreak after Easter(if I am not wrong there were other religious holidays on that week as well)?

[yamanjain]

We don't have vaccine hesitancy because we are scared. We saw the tsunami of the delta variant when no one had any help. Hence better to take vaccine

[quilowe]

Unbelievable. People n religion complete Oblivious insanity.

[t.a]

Greetings for my Indian brothers and sisters. Hope they are all vaccinated.

[yogeshwarrao]

Why you always report 'n' days after😅😅. Durga pooja ended 10 days ago

[SmallusDicckus]

Hey DW,
Was there any news regarding hindus living in Bangladesh?
Lets talk about festivals later.

[aryan]

People in india are also very careless and take everything easily.

[hardeeprajput]

Why does each and every news channel goes to JNU. Why is there step child behavior for other university?

[silvialogan]

The people in India were crowded together not wearing masks nor social distancing in the Festivals.

[japjungho]

Here’s one clear example why India is so behind compared to other developing nations. We got Delta, now let’s get ready for Gamma. Thanks Indians.

[paulxu]

India is doing good things to help the earth ease much burden

[beggarslexicon]

Religion hurts humanity in so many ways.

[roleplayinglife]

Really quite extraordinary. When India and other non-white countries had trouble tackling Covid everyone pounded: underdeveloped, barbaric, etc. Russia and America have now had two years of utter incapacity (not two months) and it barely registers