Covid in Uttar Pradesh: Coronavirus overwhelms India’s most populous state
With a population larger than Brazil, an Indian state struggles to cope as Covid-19 sweeps through it. …
With 240 million people, Uttar Pradesh is India’s most populous state. Home to every sixth Indian, if it was a separate country, it would be the fifth largest by population in the world, just behind China, India, US and Indonesia – and bigger than Pakistan and Brazil.