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People wait to receive a coronavirus vaccine in Mumbai  Credit: AFP Sitting at her computer in mid-February, Bhramar Mukherjee felt her stomach drop as she analysed India’s rising number of Covid-19 cases. “I remember tweeting on February 18 that we were seeing the number of infections doubling in states like Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Punjab but no one took me seriously, even my own family,” recalls Prof Mukherjee, an Indian-born Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. Cases are indeed rising – soaring in fact. On Thursday, India reported over 217,353 new Covid-19 infections and the country s healthcare system stands on the verge of total collapse. Recorded deaths are running at over a thousand a day and hospitals are becoming overwhelmed.

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