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India Coronavirus Dispatch: How long can the disease really last?

Low pay, poor facilities deter health workers from Covid care, cases in Karnataka, AP at new highs, how Indian education can adapt to a post-Covid world-news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

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A worker in PPE sanitizes the interiors of High Street Phoenix mall in Mumbai’s Lower Parel on Thursday. The Maharashtra government has allowed shopping malls and marketplaces to reopen between 9 am and 7 pm from August 5 | Photo: Kamlesh Pednekar

Sarah Farooqui New Delhi
Managing Covid-19
Low salaries, poor facilities deter health workers from Covid-19 care: Government and private hospitals are finding it difficult to recruit new and additional healthcare workers to care for Covid-19 patients even as the number of people testing positive continues to grow. The pandemic has added to the stress of an overburdened healthcare workforce. India has one medical doctor for every 1,404 people and 1.7 nurses per 1,000 people, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. This is lower than the World Health Organization (WHO) benchmark of one doctor and three nurses per 1,000 people. Read more

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