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This city offers clues to the future of India’s virus battle

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MUMBAI : Pimpri-Chinchwad, the automotive, engineering and IT hub lying between Mumbai and Pune, could well provide the answer to India’s battle against covid-19.

The twin city of 2 million has braved the pre-covid economic slowdown, the coronavirus outbreak and the consequent shutdown.

Now, a second wave of patients are testing positive, with six new cases on 4 April. The twin city precedes India’s tryst with covid-19 by almost a fortnight.

This holds lessons for the rest of the country, especially industrial towns with large migrant populations. “We are keenly watching the trajectory.

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