Covid-19 rises relentlessly on all key indices in India

The ferocity with which the cases rose in the week ending April 17 overwhelmed the country’s healthcare infrastructure. That’s probably because the addition in the number of active cases happened, on average, at the rate of nearly one lakh a day.

Why does the current surge of the pandemic seem unmanageable in India now? The ferocity with which the cases rose in the week ending April 17 overwhelmed the country’s healthcare infrastructure. That’s probably because the addition in the number of active cases happened, on average, at the rate of nearly one lakh a day. There was a massive spike in positivity rates (proportion of confirmed cases out of the total tests being done) in densely populated states like Bihar, West Bengal, and Uttar Pradesh. And the case fatality rate (number of deaths for every 100 confirmed cases) too began to inch up.