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The corona warriors of Kerala put Britain’s crooked contract snafflers to shame
The doorstep health workers of India’s communist state show that it’s human assistance that makes self-isolation possible, not the call centres and crib sheets favoured by the Tories, says SOLOMON HUGHES
People wait to get inoculated at a vaccination camp in Kochi, Kerala state

PANORAMA’S recent documentary on how different nations tried containing Covid-19 told, in a few minutes, how the Indian state of Kerala responded.

These few minutes of television also made very clear why so many died in Britain.

I’d thoroughly recommend watching Panorama’s documentary, Covid: Who Got it Right, because it underlines how Britain’s response contained so many weird, unusual Thatcherite programmes, which break with very basic public health messages.

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