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While the world is facing a monumental health crisis due to transmission of coronavirus which has affected 19,82,59,318 persons and causing the deaths of 42,29,249. In India a total of 3,16,19,573 were infected with covid and 4,23,965 persons died due to it. The first wave of Covid-19 caught the world totally unprepared. The world was more prepared when the second wave of Covid-19 began but still, the virus was as lethal as it spread more rapidly than the first wave and also proved more deadly in claiming many more lives and as many times the number of young as well as the old. The protocols and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) have been insisted upon and enforced to the best extent possible even through imposition of fines on violators. However, authorities across the world accept that covid protocols or SOPs are inadequate to prevent the spread of the virus as it is as good as expecting to be protected from rain in a roofless house. Protocols and SOPs may be likened to non-violence against violence. What is needed to stop the rampaging virus is knowing where it has struck and how to prevent it from spreading further. Knowing where the virus is important and this is possible only when people get tested for covid. This is like erecting a border fencing to prevent infiltration. The fencing is through testing for covid. The more the number of people tested for covid-19 the better the picture that emerges to locate the virus hidden within humans. The next is a weapon against infiltrators. In the war against covid-19 the weapon is the vaccine. These were developed by highly reputed pharmaceutical companies with over a century of expertise in producing vaccines.It is not unexpected that there will be divided opinions about vaccines against covid-19. The vaccines were developed post-haste after the global pandemic in March 2020 and a few were produced within a span or some eight months. Normally it takes some ten to fifteen years to develop and produce a vaccine such as small pox, flu etc. However, it has taken a very short time to develop vaccines against covid since today, there is immense information and immense leap in technological research. The main suspicion against covid vaccine is that proteins of the virus injected into the body to build anti-bodies, can cause other diseases in later years. However, there is still no concrete scientific evidence to suggest that covid vaccines have life threatening side effects. Even with flu vaccine, which was developed over decades of research, there were some very rare cases –one in 2.4 million of those vaccinated- who suffered paralysis. However, the differing views over covid vaccine, has led to some surprising development in recent weeks. As the governments both at the centre and states battling the deadly virus, realize that testing and vaccination are the only two means of stopping the spread; they have asked people to get tested and vaccinated. In some cases, when this failed to cut much ice, the state governments, have made it mandatory for categories of people to get tested and vaccinated. To counter this, some have filed PILs against ‘mandatory testing and vaccination’. The courts have upheld the right of an individual against being coerced or forced to get tested and vaccinated and superseded the rights of all others to be safe and protected. The courts ought not to focus only on individual rights over covid but collective responsibility for safety and protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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