'ILLUSION'Whereas the first wave of the epidemic in India, which peaked in September, was largely concentrated in urban areas, where testing was introduced faster, the second wave that erupted in February is rampaging through rural towns and villages, where about two-thirds of the country's 1.35 billion people live, and testing in those places is sorely lacking."This drop in confirmed COVID cases in India is an illusion," S.
Vincent Rajkumar, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in the United States, said on Twitter."First, due to limited testing, the total number of cases is a huge underestimate.
Second, confirmed cases can only occur where you can confirm: the urban areas. Rural areas are not getting counted."While lockdowns have.