Britain’s Covid Deaths and India Comparison Show How Boris Johnson Got About Everything Wrong This week Britain passed the grim ...
Britain’s Covid Deaths and India Comparison Show How Boris Johnson Got About Everything Wrong
This week Britain passed the grim milestone of 1,00,000 Covid-19 deaths. That figure has been rising by more than a thousand a day for several days now. On Friday, the death toll stood at 1,03,126. To put that number into a better context for Indians reading this, if India’s death rate based on its population would have been similar to Britain’s, there would have been 2.2 million deaths in India by now. India’s actual death toll is about 1,54,000.
Till Friday, Britain had recorded 3.75 million Covid-positive cases. The Indian equivalence of that would have been 80 million cases, or roughly the entire populations of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Himachal and Jammu and Kashmir.
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