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Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic with me, Helen Livingstone.
India’s death toll from Covid-19 has crossed 500,000, a level many health experts say was breached last year but obscured by inaccurate surveys and unaccounted dead in the hinterlands, where millions remain vulnerable to the disease.
