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India’s COVID-19 pandemic: Anatomy of a social crime With India’s official totals of daily new COVID-19 infections and active cases falling for the better part of two weeks, the country’s far-right Narendra Modi-led government has begun boasting that the pandemic is on a “downward trend.” Some opposition-led state governments, including that of Delhi, meanwhile, have announced plans to relax their limited lockdown measures. Yet India is by any measure in the midst of a social catastrophe. According to the official tallies, in the eight weeks since April 1, total infections have more than doubled, rising from 12.1 to 26.9 million, while deaths have increased by 89 percent to total 307,231 as of yesterday morning. Just in the past week, India has registered an additional 1.73 million COVID-19 cases and 28,512 deaths, or more than 4,000 per day.

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