They need to flatten the curve so they don’t clog up the Ganges river.
Incidentally that's in a state with a population of 300 million.
The worst hit state has been Maharashtra with 1500 deaths out of a population of 100 million. This is the state with the largest most densely packed city - Bombay
The next badly hit was Gujarat with 800 -- another highly urbanized state
by the by, the map above shows the crazy multi-cultural diversity of India — each of the “states” is really a separate nation with it’s own language, language script — it has 28 states — and each of these languages have hundreds of years (if not, like Marathi and Tamil over 2000 years) of written history.