India now has over 1.8 million confirmed cases of Covid-19. Of those more than 580,000 are active. The highest number of new cases daily in the world is in India, even more than in the United States — in spite of its relatively low and inaccurate testing mechanisms.
July saw the cases in India treble — they were under 600,000 at the end of June. It is worth noting that the dismal mathematics of a pandemic make even some good news sound bad. For example, the fact is that the number of cases per million in India is fewer than 1,400, a fraction of what it is in countries like ...
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