Covid-19: India's response to second wave is warning to other countries
by Peter Beaumont from World news | The Guardian on (#5GXC6)
Analysis: India's surveillance of the virus missed its real prevalence earlier this year
The blindspots in India's response to its second, devastating wave of coronavirus infections serve as a stark warning to other countries.
In retrospect it was clear that the figures for new infections that India was reporting in January and February were probably too good to be true, with a country of more than 1.3 billion people seeing its caseload drop from its first peak last year of over 100,000 cases a day to under 10,000.
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