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  • COVID-19 pandemic response: Comparing the Indian and Chinese approaches

    There are four types of endemic human corona viruses in the world—229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1—and people across countries commonly get infected with these. According to experts, SARS-CoV-2 virus is soon becoming the fifth endemic human coronavirus. Once the supply bottlenecks of COVID-19 vaccines are overcome, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is supposed to become yet another…

  • Did Dharavi model work? Is it herd immunity or plain luck?

    While 90-feet-road presented a picture of a normal Dharavi, Down To Earth decided to move a bit further north from here. Our fixer, Rajesh Prabhakar, and Dharavi-based volunteer, Arun Kunchikor, insisted we visit areas that rarely attract the attention of either the media or the administration. We reached Rajiv Gandhi Nagar’s Uttar Seva Sangh Chawl.…

  • Counting Deaths and Feeling Bad: COVID19 as Spectator Sport

    For long, Western commentariat has treated poverty in the global South as a spectator sport, where improvements didn’t usually bring about the same enthusiasm that a perceived worsening of the situation would. For the same reason, India lifting a mammoth 271 million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2016 led to only some muted…