A low number of confirmed coronavirus cases has encouraged India and Pakistan to ease their shutdowns, but experts fear testing capacity isn’t sufficient to manage a reopening
Despite rising numbers of Covid-19 cases, India and Pakistan are loosening their lockdowns, counting on deaths to remain low and their hospitals to be able to cope with the envisaged rise in serious cases, according to public-health specialists.
The bet is that the surprisingly low level of deaths so far signals a milder pattern to the disease outbreak, meaning that the economic pain of the lockdown isn’t justified by the health risks. Experts say it could go badly wrong if the virus spreads out of control as restraints are...
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