Top Doctors' Body Advising PM Modi Made Odd Covid Decisions: Experts Top Doctors' Body Advising PM Modi Made Odd Covid Decisions: Experts India struggled to curb the world's fastest coronavirus surge this summer, and public health experts are warning that the country is ill prepared to face a possible third wave of infections. A makeshift Covid quarantine facility set up at a banquet hall in New Delhi. For a century, the Indian Council of Medical Research was a little known government body quietly studying illnesses in New Delhi. But during the pandemic, it's taken on a role akin to Anthony Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the U.S. -- a powerful position that's made it a controversial face of India's struggles with Covid-19.