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Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by blackoil on Saturday May 01, 2021 @11:11PM (#27012055)
It has hit upper middle class as well, who otherwise have access to best of food/healthcare.
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Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by guerrilla on Sunday May 02, 2021 @07:29AM (#27014269)
Is the quality of life and are the health outcomes the same as those of the countries they're being compared to for thier middle class? Is it not a relative term?

"According to The Economist, 78 million of India's population are considered middle class as of 2017, if defined using the cutoff of those making more than $10 per day, a standard used by the India's National Council of Applied Economic Research"

So, apparently no probably not to my first question and yes to the second.

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