Your reply is disingenuous.

You state that you do not have "first hand" experience and yet are pushing questionable narratives from your Parents/Aunts/Uncles (who frankly seem to belong to the irrational "don't get the vaccine" crowd) as fact. Having lived through it all in India, i can categorically state that your narratives are very much false.

You seem to have no idea of the statistical nature of Covid tests; they are not binary. A Doctor has to make a judgement call on the result of the test (eg. RT-PCR) vs. the results of other tests (eg. Chest Scan) which is not easy. Given our limited resources in everything (i.e. Education/Hospitals/Doctors/Nurses as a percentage of the Total Population) it can become rather difficult to convince people of the costs (tests, time and money) involved. While of course there are many problems/inefficiencies with the system and we did drop the ball in preparing for the 2nd wave (as did the rest of the World) overall i would say we have done a stellar job of managing the crisis with the limited resources we have at our disposal.