A headline in India Today screams, "India passes Russia as 3rd worst-hit country by coronavirus." How did they arrive at this headline? They did so by simply ordering the positives country-wise from the Johns Hopkins University tabulation. Is this even meaningful? Obviously not!

The more you test the more would be the positives. A more populous country would obviously have more positives. We must look at the mortality rate and recovery rate. If you see the data for the first 10 countries from the same JHU tabulation a different perspective you get!

India has one of the lowest mortality rate (14) as compared to USA (395), Brazil (307), Russia (70), Peru (336), Chile (344), UK (671), Mexico (241), Spain (617), and Italy (581).
India has one of the best recovery rates (60%) as compared to USA (31%) and UK (0.48%). India's

recovery rate is comparable to those of Brazil (62%), Russia (66%), Peru (63%), and Spain (60%). It is a little lower than those of Chile (88%), Mexico (77%), and Italy (79%).
Whichever way you look at it, India is not the third worst-hit country. On the contrary, her's is one of

the best performances in the world. If one added other dimensions such as social complexities(e.g., population density, number of city clusters, transient populations, traffic density, existing comorbidities related to genetic pools, positivity rate)then India's performance would

look even more commendable. The credit for achieving this goes to PM #Modi , the CM of 30 states, ICMR, public health workers, law enforcement, and the people of India. Why would then the #media resort to sensational reporting contradicting facts? First, most of the journalists

are semi-literates. They have studied some useless liberal arts subject at JNU and are incapable of analyzing data. Second, there is a leftist bias. The media hopes that by lying about reality and manufacturing a false narrative it could make Modi look bad. Third, Big Pharma pays

off reporters and scripts what needs to be written. Fear-mongering helps peddle vaccines and drugs once those are developed and loot the public through scam hospital treatments until then. The question is whether Indian government should tolerate this. This is not a victimless

crime. This kind of intentional misleading hurts the economy & endangers lives. Why is the freedom of press more important than the freedom of the common man to hear the truth? Be it anyone from the media India should rightly treat them as criminals for peddling false narratives.