That's not really the point of the article.
They've gone from 15k new COVID cases a day in early March to 300k in mid April. No other country has seen a 20x rise in cases during that time.
They've gone from 15k new COVID cases a day in early March to 300k in mid April. No other country has seen a 20x rise in cases during that time.
No they're not, because India is in the middle of a case explosion right now. That's a completely different situation than a country with awful per-capita numbers but a low-slope linear growth (like france).
That's not saying france has handled this well (they have not, at all), but next week odds are France will still be seeing 40k cases / day, while India could be closing in on a million.
The article really talks about how India is doing in comparison to how it was doing a few months ago and then paints a picture of how dire the situation currently is. I think the raw numbers actually do a better point of getting both those points across.