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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The COVID-19 paradox in South Asia -Deepak Nayyar

The COVID-19 paradox in South Asia -Deepak Nayyar

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published Published on Apr 24, 2020   modified Modified on Apr 24, 2020

-The Hindu

It is surprising that South Asia has far fewer infections and deaths compared with North America and Western Europe

The oldest and largest democracies in the world are often compared. This time is different. The first person tested positive for COVID-19 on January 21 in the United States and on January 30 in India. Roughly three months later, on April 20, the total number of infections was 7,23,605 in the U.S. and 17,265 in India, accounting for 31.2% and 0.75% of the world total, while the number of COVID-19 deaths was 34,203 in the U.S. and 543 in India, making up 21.7% and 0.33% of the world total. The share of the two countries in world population, by contrast, is about 4% and 18%, respectively.

A puzzling situation

It is even more surprising that a comparison with South Asia — Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — yields similar results. In Nepal too, it was in late January that the first person tested positive for COVID-19, though it was end-February or early-March in the other countries. On April 20, South Asia, with a share of 23.4% in world population, accounted for 1.25% of infections and 0.5% of COVID-19 deaths in the world.

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The Hindu, 24 April, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-covid-19-paradox-in-south-asia/article31417806.ece?homepage=true


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