So, it is just as well that jumbo centres are up and ready. We have to learn from our mistakes or just some hasty decisions. We had seen some centres disbanded before the second wave rose like a tsunami. Then, everybody will remember the nightmare—no hospital beds, scrambling for oxygen, shortage of medicines and the horrific scenario. Officials were scrambling to set up certain centres.

So, as we walk a tightrope between lives and livelihoods, we have to keep ourselves protected through following the standard operating procedures (SOP) which all know by now. We know, too, that fatigue falter and festival factors are in, so there are slippages and some complacency.

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Here, then, it is important that jumbo centres are not disbanded but are part of the arsenal, in case we see yet another mammoth wave. Countries that have opened up, so to speak, are seeing a surge; the UK being one example. We certainly cannot disband as yet. Re-setting infrastructure is difficult, time consuming, expensive and painful. More power to preparedness, we say.