Indian commuters crowd the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai, India, on February 1. Photo: AP
Does India really have a handle on the coronavirus, after all the dire predictions?
- While the country remains the second-worst-affected nation in terms of absolute infection numbers, its new cases per capita have slowed to well below the US and Britain
- A year after its first reported case, some hospitals in New Delhi have no Covid-19 patients, and normality is prevailing – though Kerala and Maharashtra states are battling a surge
Indian commuters crowd the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai, India, on February 1. Photo: AP