, ... Corona Control, India Worse Than Neighbours
Compared to other South Asian countries, there are significant shortfalls in Indias management of the pandemic. This is due to relative long-term neglect of health provisions here
Now that India has already overtaken Brazil among the countries that are recording the most number of Covid-19 positive cases, and is on the verge of even beating the US, its worth trying to understand what has led to this inability to control the pandemic in India. One of the arguments often made is that with India being a developing country with a large poor population engaged in informal work, the standard containment measures are less likely to show results. The state also has fewer resources, both financial and real (in terms of health infrastructure and health workers), to combat the disease.
All this is true, but what explains the fact that Indias performance with regard to dealing with the disease has been so much worse than other South Asian countries, most of which share similar characteristics? Charts 1 and 2 show how India has now become the worst-faring among five major South Asian countries, in terms of both Covid-19 positive cases and deaths attributed to the disease, relative to total population (there are known problems of undercounting in both cases and deaths in India, but these are set aside for the moment, especially as such factors could also be operating in the other countries).
https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/c-p-chandrasekhar/covid-19-why-is-india-faring-worse-than-its-neighbours/article32318486.ece
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, ... Corona Control, India Worse Than Neighbours Compared to other South Asian countries, there are significant shortfalls in Indias management of the pandemic. This is due to relative long-term neglect of health provisions here Now that India has already overtaken Brazil among the countries that are recording the most number of Covid-19 positive cases, and is on the verge of even beating the US, its worth trying to understand what has led to this inability to control the pandemic in India. One of the arguments often made is that with India being a developing country with a large poor population engaged in informal work, the standard containment measures are less likely to show results. The state also has fewer resources, both financial and real (in terms of health infrastructure and health workers), to combat the disease. All this is true, but what explains the fact that Indias performance with regard to dealing with the disease has been so much worse than other South Asian countries, most of which share similar characteristics? Charts 1 and 2 show how India has now become the worst-faring among five major South Asian countries, in terms of both Covid-19 positive cases and deaths attributed to the disease, relative to total population (there are known problems of undercounting in both cases and deaths in India, but these are set aside for the moment, especially as such factors could also be operating in the other countries). https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/c-p-chandrasekhar/covid-19-why-is-india-faring-worse-than-its-neighbours/article32318486.ece