This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse
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Bolsonaro publicly defying the mask wearing recommendation. He contracted Covid-19, but seems to have emerged from it largely unscathed.
The chart of the numbers of daily new cases in India shows the daily count soaring more than in any other country except Brazil, whereas in the United States, the daily number of new cases has plateaued ever since it hit 72,278 on July 10th, three weeks ago.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed that his country's response to the pandemic has defied global expectations.
“The way Indians came together to fight against coronavirus in the last few months, we have proved the world wrong,” Modi said Sunday, while delivering his monthly radio address to the nation. India has the third-highest number of virus cases worldwide, with more than 1.3 million recorded instances of Covid-19 and 32,060 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Modi claimed the coronavirus recovery rate was better in India than in other countries but warned that the threat of the disease remained. “We need to remain vigilant. We have to remember that coronavirus is still as dangerous as it was in the beginning,” he added.
Covid-19 has put this site on ventilators.
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