India Coronavirus Dispatch: Covid killed more in rural areas in September

Record cases in Kerala and Karnataka, going deeper into India's fatality rate, and how Covid could behave in winter--news on how the country is coping with the pandemic

In Numbers

Rural spread: After the government imposed the world’s harshest lockdown at short notice, migrant workers from around the country were forced to make a journey back home. It was only a matter of time before the pandemic would take off in the rural stretches of the country. On Juy 26, cases from rural India first topped the ones from urban areas. Since May, the government has not released district-wise data. However, an analysis of records throws up concerning statistics. In August alone, rural districts reported almost 1.1 million Covid-19 cases; this was 56 per cent of all new cases