In this episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Mehraj D Lone are joined by Dhanya Rajendran, editor-in-chief of The News Minute.

Starting off with the #TablighiJamaat controversy, Dhanya explains how the event had hundreds of participants from the southern states, but governments took a long time to address the problem.

Abhinandan asks what we can really know about the #Covid19 spread in India if we’ve only conducted as few as 47,000 tests. Dhanya thinks this figure is not uniform across India; it’s just a handful of states where testing has been ramped up. Manisha feels the government is “completely opaque” with the numbers, except for a few state governments.

Full episode: https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/04/04/chhota-hafta-270-tablighi-jamaat-covid-19-testing-in-india-media-coverage-of-the-outbreak-and-more

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