'To tackle covid in rural india, enable at-home care, involve panchayats'

The best way to arrest the Covid surge in India's villages is to rebuild people's trust in public systems, encourage home care and use simple technologies, say experts

The number of COVID-19 cases in India is now slowing down a bit, with around 350,000 cases and fewer than 4,200 deaths every day. We know by now that on both numbers, there is considerable under-counting.

The number of cases at a national level does not also represent, or perhaps hides, what is happening in rural India. What we do know now, through anecdotal measurements, either in terms of the number of deaths or the field work of many organisations, is that cases in rural India are now much higher than ever?

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