India gets a bad press internationally because six months after its first confirmed infection it has overtaken Russia to record the world’s third largest number of Covid-19 cases.
But amidst all the criticism two facts stand out.
India’s recovery numbers are promising
The data suggests that those in India who have been diagnosed with the virus are recovering from it faster than they are dying from it.
India’s death rate is also very low
India has so far recorded about 20,160 deaths from Covid-19. In absolute numbers, that is the eighth highest tally in the world. But per million of the population, it is low.
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