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India coronavirus dispatch: Are we doing better than other countries?

From India's migrant crisis to the possibility of there being millions of undetected cases in the country

A medic collects a swab sample of a migrant after arriving from Chennai via 'Shramik Special' train, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, at Nehrubali in Nagaon District. Photo: PTI
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A medic collects a swab sample of a migrant after arriving from Chennai via 'Shramik Special' train, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, at Nehrubali in Nagaon District. Photo: PTI

Sarah Farooqui New Delhi
Inside India’s migrant crisis, better engagement of the public and private sectors in healthcare, and are we really doing ‘better’ than other countries?— here is a roundup of articles in Indian news publications on how India is dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. 

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India could have 10 million undetected Covid-19 infections, says disease modelling expert: It’s hard to know what to make of the government’s claim that perhaps 2.9 million Covid-19 cases and 78,000 Covid-19 related deaths have been averted, because this is based on un-transparent mathematical modelling which the country has been asked to trust and not question. We don’t