Turkey’s interior minister sent his resignation taking responsibility for chaos following a weekend COVID curfew that was imposed with only two hours’ notice (Erdogan did not accept the resignation). The lockdown for the entire nation in March 2020, if we recall, was announced by Narendra Modi with just four hours’ notice leading to millions of workers walking thousands of kilometres to their homes.
Israeli health minister had to give up his post following intense criticism over his coronavirus handling.
Countries listed here holding some standards of public accountability during the pandemic are an illustration of how insouciant the Indian government has been when it comes to a hubristic policy-inflicted tragedy of this scale.
From the above list, Mongolia, Romania, Ecuador and Peru are ranked below India (a flawed democracy and ranked 53) on the Democracy Index. Turkey is ranked 104. Jordan is ranked 118 and is classified as an authoritarian regime!
Slovakia, Poland, Brazil and…
