NEW DELHI : The rising number of coronavirus infections in India may seem alarming, but when looked at in the context of the country’s population, the picture may be more comforting, experts said.Although India is among the top 10 countries in the number of coronavirus infections, it ranks 143rd in terms of total per capita coronavirus cases, former chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu said in a short analysis he tweeted on Monday.
In terms of total per capita coronavirus deaths, India ranked 115th, Basu’s analysis showed, suggesting that merely looking at the total number of infections may not give the larger picture in a country of over 1.3 billion people, especially for policymaking.His argument endorses the opening-up of the economy.