The myth of Indian exceptionalism has cost the country dearly during the pandemic
The small number of deaths during the first wave made India believe that it was somehow special. The consequences are all too apparent now.
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A health worker takes a sample to test for coronavirus in a market in Old Delhi.
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The second wave of Covid-19 in India began around the middle of February. In the beginning, it was centred around the smaller districts and towns of interior Maharashtra, including Akola and Amravati. Reports from there, of whole families being infected and of test positivity ratios in excess of 50%, were first vigorously denied by the state but confirmed soon after.