Fix the Fault Line

Of the 4,631 active COVID-19 cases in Gujarat listed on the state government’s tracking website, 3,518, or over 68 per cent, are in Ahmedabad. At the time of writing, 888 people in the city had died, just over 81 per cent of the state’s death toll, and 98,754 Ahmedabad residents were under quarantine, about 42 per cent of the 235,017 people quarantined across Gujarat. Things are so bad in Ahmedabad that the Gujarat High Court, on May 23, described conditions in the city’s Civil Hospital,