'Mumbai, Delhi has a third the Covid deaths per million than DC, Madrid'

K. Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India speaks on the current trajectory of Covid-19 cases in India, treatment and vaccines for the disease

Even though India has about 19% of the world’s COVID-19 cases, it has 10% of the deaths, data show. A younger population, experience and the benefit of global knowledge on COVID-19 helped India keep deaths low, said K. Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). 

Currently, India has about 7.4 million cases of COVID-19, the second-most after the US, with 8 million cases. Nearly 6.5 million have recovered in India and the virus has killed about 113,000 so far. The US has a much higher rate of death with over 218,000 deaths, data show. Within India, Maharashtra