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Covid: What went wrong in India?
Earlier this year India seemed to be winning the fight against Covid-19, so how and why has it gone so wrong?
Earlier this year, India’s ruling party was declaring victory in the fight against Covid-19. Some two months on, India set a global record for the highest number of cases recorded in a single country.
Kavita Puri asks what went wrong.
Image: A queue near a vaccination centre in Mumbai, 26 April 2021 (Credit: Divyakant Solanki/EPA)
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