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Protecting India’s most vulnerable may be key to lockdown exit

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Nearly 100 million people in India are extremely vulnerable to covid-19 due to old age or pre-existing health conditions As covid-19 spreads across the country, identifying and protecting the most vulnerable may be the most critical factor in limiting deaths in the country, and in exiting the lockdown early.

The data on the initial cases released by the government and by a volunteer group crowd-sourcing covid-19 case histories suggest that most Indian patients are young, in line with India’s demographics.

But most of the fatalities are among the aged and among those with previous ailments, the data suggests. The international experience has been similar.

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