Why India’s worsening Covid crisis is a dire problem for the world

Analysis: Urgent supplies are needed to stem the rampant spread of infections in country of 1.4bnCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe catastrophe unfolding in India appears to be the worst-case scenario that many feared from the Covid-19 pandemic: unable to find sufficient hospital beds, access to tests, medicines or oxygen, the country of 1.4 billion is sinking beneath the weight of infections.The two opposed assumptions of the global response to coronavirus &nd