In an interview that clearly reveals the manipulation and dishonesty that can at times lie behind Covid testing in India and which will disturb the country whilst annoying the Central government and several state governments, one of India’s well-known health economists, who has closely studied Covid testing since the start of the pandemic, says he has several examples that show UP and Bihar are manipulating tests and presenting dishonest outcomes. Prof. Rijo M John also questioned the Central government’s claim that testing has increased 2.6 times during the second wave and says this is not the case if you compare testing levels at the peak of the first wave with the peak of the second. He is also extremely sceptical of the government’s claim that India will increase its testing capacity to 4.5 lakh tests a day by the end of June. He says it’s taken India 15 months since the start of the pandemic to manage 2 or 2.1 lakh tests a day and it’s hard to believe this can be more than doubled in 5 weeks.