Five key questions about India’s rising Covid-19 infections - BBC News
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India should begin treating this as what Ed Yong, a science writer at the Atlantic magazine, calls a “patchwork pandemic”. This is when the infection spreads through a country, affecting different parts differently.
Yong notes the pandemic is shaped by factors like social distancing, testing capacity, population density, age structure, wealth, societal collectivism, and luck. In India the virus has been spread by millions of informal workers who fled the cities after a botched lockdown abruptly left them jobless and without money. They returned to their villages on foot, and crowded trains and buses. These workers account for some 80% of recent cases in the Odisha state, for example."That’s why it’s important to not look at it as an India pandemic by itself", said Dr Ambarish Satwik, a vascular surgeon at Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. “There’s the Delhi epidemic, the Mumbai pandemic, the Ahmedabad pandemic.”
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