India charts its own path through the coronavirus pandemic

The fear, so far largely unfounded, at the start of the pandemic outbreak is that it would be bad for developed economies with well-funded health care systems but disastrous for developing economies with immature or underfunded health care systems.
The reality has been much more mixed.

The worst outbreaks have largely been in advanced economies and many developing countries, such as those on the continent of Africa, are so far coping remarkably well.
Two major outliers are Brazil and India.
In Brazil’s case, it is because the federal government has refused to acknowledge the country even has a problem. India, meanwhile, reacted swiftly but has struggled with a woefully underfunded health care system and fundamental errors in how the government handled migrant workers. Overlay those issues on crowded cities — in which populations live cheek by jowl with neighbors and often in large family units — and the opportunity for transmissions is high.
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Given the above, it is a surprise infection rates are not higher, although it has to be said data is sketchy and underreporting a near certainty under the current lockdown conditions (said to be some of the most severe in the world).
It is surprising, therefore, that faced with such a huge threat and coping with woefully insufficient data, the government is easing lockdown restrictions while infection rates are still rising.
The Financial Times reports India’s coronavirus infection and death tolls still lag well behind the U.S. or in western Europe, though it has overtaken China with more than 90,000 confirmed cases. The curve of new infections has also not flattened despite nearly two months of nationwide lockdown and raises the question as to what an easing of the lockdown will bring.