India's Covid test eats into a fourth of an average person's monthly income

India's coronavirus test is costlier than in developed countries in terms of purchasing power as well, while private insurance coverage is shallower here

The new human coronavirus SARS-nCoV2 is on a rampage around the world, spreading the new disease Covid-19 faster than we can comprehend. Almost everything concerned with the virus is still “unknown,” and on top of it, the pandemic has spared neither the middle class, nor the poor, nor Jair Bolsonaro, and nor even Boris Johnson.

At a time when infections are reaching the neighbours’ homes or the colleagues’ desks, people are taking up, or are thinking of taking up, Covid-19 tests to ensure that they are safe from the virus. This is exactly what Pravin Kamble thought, and ended up