How India's Silicon Valley saw its COVID-19 success come undone

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How Bengaluru, dubbed India’s Silicon Valley, saw its COVID-19 success come undone Track the daily rise of coronavirus cases in major Indian cities

FILE PHOTO: Software professionals assisting municipal authorities work on their terminals inside a"war room" focused on tracking the spread of the coronavirus disease at the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike office in Bengaluru, India July 2, 2020. REUTERS/Nivedita Bhattacharjee

Thanks partly to a high-tech testing and tracing system monitored by masked officials on giant screens in a city “war room,” Bengaluru had contained the outbreak better than cities like Mumbai, which had tallied more than 100 times as many cases. But after India eased a nationwide lockdown in early June, epidemiologists and government officials involved in the city’s response to the pandemic said they realised they had not planned enough. The experience illustrates the extent of the challenge faced by large cities across the globe, showing how rapidly an outbreak can snowball out of control.

 

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