https://www.scmp.com/rss/506561/feed Rukmini S is a Chennai-based independent data journalist. She is the former Data Editor of The Hindu and Huffington Post India en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Once a day, every morning at 8am and then only, the Indian government’s health ministry updates its website to put out a handful of basic Covid-19 numbers, including what the current cumulative count of cases is. Many Indians watch it as if it were the scoreboard of a cricket match, and last week, India recorded the third-highest number of cases in the world. Will India climb to the top of the scoreboard? It might well happen, but that scoreboard hides a lot of nuance about India’s good... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3092950/covid-19-indias-modi-no-trump-or-bolsonaro-countrys-coronavirus?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3092950/covid-19-indias-modi-no-trump-or-bolsonaro-countrys-coronavirus?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:00:19 +0000