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PANDEMIC HACK
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Consumers' preferences, priorities, and values are reshaping industries.
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Published April 8, 2021
As India braces for the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, some Indians have come up with a jugaad—the colloquial term for a hack—that might prove to be a menace for the country.
On April 1, the government in the western state of Gujarat shut down a couple of labs after it found that they were selling fake Covid-19 negative test results. This is not an isolated event. There have been several incidents where Indians have fudged reports—sometimes on their own—to dodge quarantine rules or travel freely without taking an RT-PCR test that several states have made mandatory.
The Covid-19 jugaad: Indians are using fake reports to travel and skip exams
REUTERS/FRANCIS MASCARENHAS
Dark times.
FROM OUR OBSESSION
How we spend
Consumers' preferences, priorities, and values are reshaping industries.
Reporter
Published April 8, 2021
As India braces for the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, some Indians have come up with a jugaad—the colloquial term for a hack—that might prove to be a menace for the country.
On April 1, the government in the western state of Gujarat shut down a couple of labs after it found that they were selling fake Covid-19 negative test results. This is not an isolated event. There have been several incidents where Indians have fudged reports—sometimes on their own—to dodge quarantine rules or travel freely without taking an RT-PCR test that several states have made mandatory.
