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0% in India seems like you must have mistyped, or something. India's infection rates are not comparable to the island nations that have successfully contained

• josephg 6y ago
  I was surprised too! Google took me here[1], which says India is down to 210k active covid cases at the moment. For a country with a population of 1.366 billion, thats only 0.016% of the population currently infected. Its possible India's covid testing isn't telling the whole story - but they've apparently done 178 million tests to date. [1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/
  • toomanybeersies 6y ago
    By comparison, Australia has done 12.1 million tests [1] for a population of 25.4 m people. [1] https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-at-a-glance-12-january-2021 https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/coronavirus...
    • josephg 6y ago
      Yes; India is probably missing the occasional case here and there. But given their daily case numbers have been dropping quickly, they're probably finding most people who have covid. If India's real number of active covid cases was 100x the official reported numbers, they still wouldn't have as many active cases per capita as the UK and USA.