India coronavirus dispatch: Covid patients more prone to dying from surgery

States' loss of fiscal autonomy, what latest data on India's coronavirus testing tells us, and why Mumbai has more patients than beds--a roundup of pieces from across Indian publications on Covid-19

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Mumbai has more patients than beds: Mumbai has detected 48 per cent of its 35,273 cases since May 17, when the lockdown was extended. The city accounts for over 22 per cent of the cases na-tionwide. With lockdown 4.0 set to end, will Mumbai’s hospitals be able to take the load of increas-ing new cases? Are hospitals being managed in terms of inflow of the right kind of patients in the right way, so as to not overload the system with patients who may not require hospitalisation? Can the logistics be managed better? Read this interview with Shivkumar