Covid-19 vs Spanish Flu: The tale of two pandemics

India has reported over 2 lakh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. With fresh cases at 2,00,739, the positive case tally in the country has mounted to 1,40,74,564, according to the data provided by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday morning.

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought back conversations around past pandemics. Spanish Flu is the most-talked about historical flu which killed about 4-5 crore people worldwide.