Ankita Rao

Dis­ease has killed 750 peo­ple with 11,000 test­ing pos­i­tive as health of­fi­cials scram­ble to con­tain its spread.

Ab­sen­teeism among doc­tors at gov­ern­ment hos­pi­tals is rife, prompt­ing in­no­v­a­tive ef­forts to en­sure they turn up for work.