Netflix, yoga: how Delhi’s first coronavirus patient beat quarantine boredom
- Eighth and final part in a series exploring the different experiences of Covid-19 survivors from around the world
- Rohit Datta assumed he had the flu when he returned from a business tour of Italy and Hungary
It seemed no stranger than the flu to Rohit Datta when, suffering a fever and throat infection, he visited his family doctor in Delhi at the end of February following a whirlwind business tour of Italy and Hungary.
“I slept for 16 hours after I landed in Delhi, which never happens. I thought it was jet lag,” said the businessman, 45, who runs a firm that makes textiles for footwear and employs 25 staff.
As of Tuesday morning the country had reported 482 coronavirus cases and nine deaths, though many experts fear the true scale of the problem may be far greater given India’s low rate of testing. India has conducted almost 21,000 tests, or roughly 15 tests per million head of population. This pales in comparison to 310 tests per million people in the United States – which itself is criticised for restrictive methods – or more than 6,000 tests per million in South Korea.
