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Editorial
. 2020 Oct;103(4):1343-1347.
doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0992.

India's Battle against COVID-19: Progress and Challenges

Ramanan Laxminarayan  1   2 , Shahid Jameel  3 , Swarup Sarkar  4
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India's Battle against COVID-19: Progress and Challenges

Ramanan Laxminarayan et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Oct.
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Figure 1.
Daily and cumulative reported COVID-19 cases in India.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Daily and cumulative reported COVID-19 deaths in India. Note: There was a spike in the number of reported deaths on June 16, 2020 as Maharashtra alone reported around 1,400 deaths that day.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Daily and cumulative RT-PCR tests conducted in India. Data source: Media, the Indian Council for Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) calculation.
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