news Is the pandemic finally coming to an end in India? Is the sharp drop in India's coronavirus cases as dramatic and curious as some believe? Is the pandemic firmly in retreat in a country where many early modellers had predicted millions of deaths due to Covid-19? In October, I had written extensively on why the pandemic appeared to be slowing down in India. Cases had hit a record peak in the middle of September - there were more than a million active cases. After that daily deaths and caseloads began declining despite consistent testing and some short and fierce spikes of infections in cities like Delhi.