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The Big Story: Comeback
Little over a year ago, with around 500 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country and 10 deaths, Prime Minister Narendra Modi put India into a three-week nationwide lockdown, one of the harshest in the world. Those three-weeks would end up being extended to a little over two months, sparking off a migrant crisis, a historic economic collapse – and a Covid graph that continued to point straight up.
It would continue to do so until September, with the economy continuing to open, before suddenly beginning to fall, for no discernible reason. As numbers steadily began to drop towards the end of 2020, the country began to be praised for breaking the link between Covid-19 spread and increased mobility.
1/ Interesting insights on the Indian economy in this note by Sajjid Chinoy. "India has broken the link between COVID proliferation & mobility much earlier & more successfully than many countries." Private sector activity levels jumped back up...
