How India manages the battle against Covid-19 on the ground

While Covid-19 ravages the world, little is known about the disease’s spread in India’s rural hinterland and congested urban areas. More importantly, how is it being managed? Will India follow a similar, or even worse trajectory as China, Italy and Iran? What would that mean in a country of 1.3 billion people, which is often depicted as bumbling and chaotic, with poor health facilities and desperately short of medical manpower?

Perhaps India’s savior may not be a miraculous vaccine, but the efficiency of its administration and public health responses to a crisis.