It is established that despite vaccinations happening, people still need to be careful with the novel coronavirus. Wearing masks and social distancing is still paramount Maybe all over the country, people thought the vaccines are here, so Covid-19 would magically disappear. Uttarakhand topped this list with West Bengal coming a close second, followed by Delhi, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. People looking for ‘vaccine centres’ at the beginning of March showed a search value of 90-100, whereas now at the end of the month, it has dropped to 41. Kerala topped this list with Daman & Diu coming second and Maharashtra coming third. Google Search for ‘Covid vaccine’ in the month of March showed a search value of 98 on March 1, whereas by the end of March, the number fell down to just 32. After authorities announced that people over the age of 60 and people over the age of 45 with comorbidities could get vaccinated, Google Search saw a considerable spike in people searching for vaccine and vaccine centres near them. One reason for this negligence could be the availability of vaccines in India. Astonishingly, Daman & Diu was the state with most searches with this keyword, followed by Tripura, Chandigarh, Jammu & Kashmir and Jharkhand. Looking at the search keyword ‘covid-19 prevention’ for the past 90 days, in January, we saw a search value of around 100 in the first week of the month, whereas, by March-end, this value was around 16. Speaking just about Mumbai (because that's where I live), from resumption of local trains in Mumbai to people celebrating festivals and other celebratory occasions in huge numbers seems to have eroded all the gains we made from last year in terms of controlling the Covid-19 spread, as standard operating procedures like wearing masks, washing hands, and maintaining social distancing stopped mattering to people. However, the government and the frontline workers did a phenomenal job of keeping things in check.īut it seems as if most people have taken this hard work for granted or maybe they think that COVID-19 is a lot more manageable than it was thought of before, resulting in many becoming negligent, and we’ve been seeing this in several places in the nation where people have quit wearing face masks or adhering to social distancing norms. Last year was tough for most of us with uncertainty on how Covid-19 will impact our lives at multiple levels - from basic safety and security of life to job prospects and other major disruptions we weren't preparing ourselves for. Have we forgotten the fear and uncertainty of last year? This could obviously mean many things - perhaps people have genuinely stopped searching for coronavirus information online - but it could also mean something else. At the time, say around April 2020, the search value for coronavirus was at 96, however, now over a year later the search value has dropped considerably to just 26.Ĭomparing this search trend amidst states in India, the state of Meghalaya tops the search trend for the same keyword for the entire year (the state has seen a total of 14,034 cases till now), whereas Maharashtra, the state that’s the worst affected (with over 2.75 million cases as of now) is all the way back to 20. Wearing masks and social distancing is still paramountĪ year ago, when the nationwide lockdown was announced in India, people were forced to stay indoors because of multiple fears - fear of catching the coronavirus, fear of the police, fear of risking your life and your family's lives.Have we forgotten the fear and uncertainty of last year?.
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