NEW DELHI (Bloomberg): It's the phone calls at all hours of the night he remembers. As swine flu ravaged northern India in 2015, a radiologist working at a hospital in a Delhi suburb said people would call begging for a bed.
That outbreak ultimately infected more than 31,000 people and killed nearly 2,000, as many died waiting for treatment.
With its densely packed cities and under-funded medical system, India has little margin for error when it comes to the coronavirus. A University of Michigan-run study predicts the country could have 915,000 coronavirus infections by mid-May, more than the case load for the whole world right now. The country had tested just 35,000 people for coronavirus as of Sunday , according to data from the Indian Council of Medical Research, a minuscule portion given its population size. That's despite 113 local government laboratories and as many as 47 private labs now authorised to process tests.
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