As the country faces an impressive explosion of Covid-19 contaminations and hospitals lack oxygen, the government is brushing aside criticism of its management of the pandemic and going so far as to put pressure on the opposition and even on them. hospitals. 

In India, the health situation continues to deteriorate day by day.

201,187 people have died since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, while contaminations explode, potentially due to the appearance of a new variant, but also to large-scale gatherings.

But as the population is confronted every day with images of overcrowded hospitals lacking beds, medicine and oxygen, the government is trying to silence critical voices about its handling of the pandemic. 

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Last weekend, 52 personalities and opponents who criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi's management of the pandemic had their tweets deleted in the name of national security, according to NDTV.

To justify this censorship, the government evokes a "risk of inciting panic", as well as "the use of images out of context, and the risk that these messages disrupt its action in the face of the pandemic", writes the

New York Times

, quoted by

Le Monde

Hospitals threatened with prosecution

On Tuesday, the

Telegraph

reported that Uttar Pradesh Minister Yogi Adityanath, a BJP party figure, said hospitals calling for oxygen are helping to create panic and will face police checks. 

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This declaration provokes indignation in the country, when patients everywhere are dying from lack of oxygen.

And the man is not at his first attempt, recalls

The Hindu

.

Last weekend, he said that no hospital is lacking for anything in India and those who claim otherwise must be prosecuted.