Covid-19 in numbers

Even as India enters the third lockdown, the rising number of positive coronavirus cases poses a huge challenge to the government and health workers. With the cases doubling every ten days, numbers in India could equal China’s in a matter of two weeks. In contrast, countries in Europe are opening up, albeit carefully. The borders are still closed in most parts of the world.

Several experts have pointed out that though the origin of the Sars-Cov2 was China, other Asian countries have not seen the kind of spike in numbers as European or North American countries have. Divya Rajagopal brings into focus the situation in South Asian and South-East Asian nations with regard to infection numbers.