As of October 5, 2020 (from the New York Times, dated October 6, 2020)
India: 6,685,082 total cases; 494/100,000
Bangladesh: 371,631 total cases; 230/100,000
Pakistan: 315,727 total cases; 149/100,000
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html#countries
I just heard a plausible explanation of why India is doing so poorly on covid in comparison to Pakistan and Bangladesh- in India, Modi did a severe lockdown of the entire country and hundreds of thousands of laborers had to walk for hundreds of miles through lots of towns and cities to get back to their villages- this caused them to get infected and to spread the infection over a wide swath of the country. No such situation happened in the neighboring countries.
Not sure headline figures like this can tell us very much in isolation. How does demographic structure compare in the three states? What kind of policy mix and/or population density exists? Lots of issues here of comparison
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