Like France and other democracies, India, in its efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, has had to strike a balance between individual freedoms and social responsibility, between national response and federal governance, as well as 'between life and livelihood.
For a nation of 1.3 billion people, with some of the world's largest and densest cities, the scale of the challenge and the enormity of the task were clear.
When news of the outbreak of a virus began to filter through the opacity of information surrounding the source of the virus, India took calibrated measures in early January, which resulted in a national containment at the end of March.
As response measures began to take shape, containment eased from June.
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The cumulative number of cases in India exceeds 8.5 million, or about 6,000 cases per million population in November, which is one of the highest ratios
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