India: Has the covid pandemic started to burn itself out?" and “The mystery of India’s plummeting covid-19 cases." There is global wonderment at how India has managed to dramatically lower the spread of infection and case fatality rates.Cinema halls have now been allowed to open at full capacity.
Even the local trains in Mumbai have started running. In Delhi, more than half the beds in the covid wings of hospitals are empty.To understand the scale of India’s achievement, compare some numbers.
According to World Health Organisation data, as on 4 February, India, with a population of 1.4 billion, has had a cumulative 154,596 covid deaths, and 110 in the preceding 24 hours.