{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5ec3d9497cef7479d2ef4798/5ec3da2e7cef7479d2ef47ac?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Chhota Hafta 270","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5ec3d9497cef7479d2ef4798/a3ceb0997956572189c080f84e8e61e5.jpg?height=200","description":"In this episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Mehraj D Lone are joined by Dhanya Rajendran, editor-in-chief of The News Minute.\n\nStarting off with the Tablighi Jamaat controversy, Dhanya explains how the event had hundreds of participants from the southern states, but governments took a long time to address the problem. \n\nAbhinandan asks what we can really know about the Covid-19 spread in India if we’ve only conducted as few as 47,000 tests.  Dhanya thinks this figure is not uniform across India; it’s just a handful of states where testing has been ramped up. Manisha feels the government is “completely opaque” with the numbers, except for a few state governments.","author_name":"Newslaundry.com"}