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India coronavirus dispatch: Railway coaches redesigned for Covid patients

Rural India the new viral flash point, how cases are being reported, anti-inflammatory steroid touted as new treatment-roundup of news in Indian publications on how India is dealing with Covid-19

Railway employee prepares a train coach as an isolation ward for the new coronavirus patient, in  Guwahati. Photo: ANI
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Railway employee prepares a train coach as an isolation ward for the new coronavirus patient, in Guwahati. Photo: ANI

Sarah Farooqui New Delhi
India probably has tens of millions of Covid-19 infections already: Watch this interview with Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Washington-based Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in which he says that that India probably already has tens of millions of Covid-19 infected people. He says the nationwide part of the ICMR’s recent serological survey which suggests that 0.73 per cent of the population has been exposed to the virus corroborates this. Laxminarayan says he believes India could have 200 million Covid-19 infected people by September.

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Rural India, the new viral flash point: There is a