Hold on though, let’s put this in perspective - India has had 200k Covid deaths out of a population of around 1.4bn, the UK has had 150k out of a population of just 67m. I can’t help but wonder if all the media coverage of India here in the UK isn’t an attempt to try and make the UK Government look good when India actually seems to have managed it much better overall.
The UK media is not unique in what it is reporting - the media here(at least the ones that are not government friendly) are reporting the same things.
The difference between the UK and India is that 1) deaths are significantly under-reported in India
https://www.ft.com/content/683914a3-134f-40b6-989b-21e0ba1dc403 (bar chart if you scroll down) 2) the trajectory is alarming 3) health systems have already collapsed and people are dying without access to hospitals - sometimes at the doors of the hospital unable to gain admission and
Social media is awash with people desperately asking for available hospital beds, medication and there is now a huge thriving black market where drugs are being marked up and sold at 40x the cost. There is a huge scarcity of oxygen supplies and people with respiratory distress are not getting access. At this rate, you're looking at a significantly increased fatality rate, massive under reporting and a very undignified death in a lot of cases. Crematoriums have run out of space.
The situation is not comparable at all. The UK mismanaged it, sure, but many cities and towns here are on their knees and it looks like it could get a lot worse. Keep in mind that what you see are images from the most developed cities in India(the top 10%, give or take a couple percentage points). There is massive disparity within India across regions and once you branch out into the smaller towns and the smaller villages, there'll be entire towns with a couple of ICU beds, entire villages with no oxygen supplies. There are already reports that this is happening
https://scroll.in/article/993462/pe...turns-silent-killer-in-uttar-pradesh-villages