India wasted its early successes in managing Covid-19, PM Modi's actions 'inexcusable': Lancet India wasted its early successes in managing Covid-19, PM Modi's actions 'inexcusable': Lancet In an editorial highly critical of the Indian government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, The Lancet journal said India wasted its early successes in managing the pandemic and PM Modi's actions during the crisis are "inexcusable". advertisement The Modi government could preside over a "self-inflicted national catastrophe", The Lancet said (Reuters photo) India wasted its early successes in managing the coronavirus pandemic and the Modi government could preside over a "self-inflicted national catastrophe" if the predictions of 1 million deaths from Covid-19 by August 1 came to be true, medical journal The Lancet said in a piece highly critical of the Indian government.