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India Covid-19: How Modi could have stopped his country s devastating crisis but didn t
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India Covid-19: How Modi could have stopped his country s devastating crisis but didn t CNN 25 mins ago By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN © Anindito Mukherjee/Getty Images People are silhouetted against multiple burning funeral pyres of patients who died of the Covid-19 on April 24, 2021 in New Delhi, India.
On April 17, ahead of a state election, a maskless Prime Minister Narendra Modiboasted to a sea of cheering supporters: I ve never ever seen such huge crowds at a rally.
His country was on the brink of a humanitarian crisis. That day, India recorded more than 261,000 new coronavirus cases more than many countries have seen during the entire pandemic.
Can New Mortality Data Explain India s Low COVID Death Numbers?
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“W
E’VE KILLED it,“ drawls a grand client at a fancy hairdresser in Delhi. “Covid came to India but we were so grubby and diseased it just bounced off, rolled over and died.” The hyperbole elicits a round of chuckles, as it was meant to.
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Such glibness might seem tasteless, considering an official national death toll of nearly 160,000, as well as ominous signs that India is on the cusp of a second wave that its vaccination drive may be too slow to suppress. Yet as a share of its nearly 1.4bn people, the tally is minuscule, despite a huge outbreak. A national survey of blood samples suggests that by December some 22% of Indians had been exposed to covid-19, 30 times the official tally of around 11m cases to date. If that estimate is right and if India’s fatality rate had been as high as, say, Britain’s, there would have been some 10m deaths.