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The profit motive can’t defeat the covid pandemic in India

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Economic Survey noted that “better health infrastructure is no guarantee that a country would be able to deal better with devastating pandemics like Covid-19" because the next one could be different.As an example, the government will probably point to Brazil, which has been posting tens of thousands of new cases a day and has one of the world’s highest virus-related death numbers.

Its population is around the same as that of Uttar Pradesh, and it spends over 16 times the amount India does on a per capita basis on healthcare.

Yet its medical system is overwhelmed.But that’s exactly why India should be worried now. If India falters, its failure will be many times the disaster in Brazil.More than a year after the outbreak, countless infected.

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