Southern Asia where people expected COVID 19 to emerges in the first place due to their populations, medical facilities, poverty.
This region has a quarter of the world's population includes India (13.5million), Pakistan (2.1million), and Bangladesh (1.6million).
However, three months after the first Covid19 infection occurred, the number of infected people in seven southern Asian countries including Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives was 6,685 (2% of the world), and the number of deaths was 1677 people.
In contrast, 1.07 million people were infected in the United States, the largest developed rich country with a population of 380 million, and more than 6,300 people died from Covid19. The total number of infections in combine Spain and Italy is more than 420,000 people.
Of course, as the cause of the surprising infection rate, it is possible to think of the number of infection tests that are extremely low. India has conducted 830,000 infection tests so far. This is the lowest rate in the world, with 614 cases per million people. However, in this test, the rate of confirming infection was only 4%. The United States was 17%.
Except for Pakistan, which has not closed international air routes to China, the countries in the region have been forced to block domestically, internationally from the beginning.
Another reason is that the age group is very young. The median age of the population is 38 in the United States, while India is only 28, Bangladesh 26, and Pakistan 24. However, even though many young people infected with Covid19 showed “asymptomatic” and were not included in the statistics or hospital records at all, the virus should have spread to older people and it didn't happen.
A US magazine Foreign Policy mentioned, "infection and mortality rates lower than expected in South Asia are a mystery.".
Therefore, people online said that "meaning of living in India is they are survival experts and that there would be a basic immunity difference considering their environment."