Bodies, some of which are believed to be Covid-19 victims, partly exposed in shallow sand graves on the banks of the Ganges River last week in Uttar Pradesh, India.Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images The official Covid-19 figures in India grossly understate the true scale of the pandemic in the country. Last week, India recorded the largest daily death toll for any country during the pandemic — a figure that is most likely still an undercount . Even getting a clear picture of the total number of infections in India is hard because of poor record-keeping and a lack of widespread testing. Estimating the true number of deaths requires a second layer of extrapolation, depending on the share of those infected who end up dying. In consultation with more than a dozen experts, The New York Times has analyzed case and death counts over time in India , along with the results […]