How India Jumped 19 Spots In List of Best Places To Be During Covid
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After reporting a world-record of 400,000-plus cases a day in early May as the delta variant ripped through the country, new infections have now dropped to less than 7,000.
India vaulted 19 spots in Bloomberg's Covid Resilience Ranking of the best and worst places to be amid the pandemic, marking a turnaround for a country that saw the world's fastest-growing Covid outbreak earlier this year.
The country is now ranked 26th in the monthly snapshot, which measures where the virus is being handled the most effectively with the least social and economic upheaval. The league table assesses 53 major economies on 12 datapoints related to virus containment, the economy and opening up.
India's improved showing is largely due to a rapid economic reopening after daily infections dropped and an initially sluggish vaccination drive picked up steam. The country has now administered more than a billion doses.
High levels of natural immunity are also potentially at play in the country in curbing infections, with some serological surveys putting previous infection rates as high as 97% in some areas. After reporting a world-record of 400,000-plus cases a day in early May as the delta variant ripped through the crowded nation of almost 1.4 billion people, pushing its health care system to near collapse, new infections have now dropped to less than 7,000.
