Mainstream media statistics in context
This is what mainstream media is reporting. India’s total COVID-19 caseload surged past 25 million on Tuesday as a powerful cyclone complicated the health crisis in one of the states where the disease is spreading most quickly. There have been 263,533 confirmed new infections over the past 24 hours, while fatalities rose by a record 4329. The official total death toll is 278,719. The government said about 98 percent of India’s population of 1.3 billion remained susceptible to infections. Indian…
