India’s Modi Concentrates on Politics as Covid Rages

Health system implodes under coronavirus’s strain

By: John Elliott

India is facing the prospect of the crippling Covid-19 pandemic surge increasing, with massive numbers of cases and mounting deaths till it peaks in mid-May, and then continues till June and July. The official number of new cases has been rising at more than 300,000 a day for the past seven days – over 2 million a week – though the real …