<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="Research Article" dtd-version="1.0"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">iarjimph</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="pubmed">IARJIMPH</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IARJIMPH</journal-id><issn>2709-331X</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.47310/iarjimph.2020.v01i01.008</article-id><title-group><article-title>Reasons for being India as an outlier in the spread of COVID-19</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Nitin</given-names><surname>Tyagi</surname></name></contrib><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-a" /></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Rohit</given-names><surname>Kumar</surname></name></contrib><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-b" /></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Rajni</given-names><surname>Dawar</surname></name></contrib><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-c" /></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Charanjeet</given-names><surname>Kaur</surname></name></contrib><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-d" /></contrib-group><aff-id id="aff-a">Senior Resident, Department of Biochemistry, VMMC &amp; SJH, New Delhi, India</aff-id><aff-id id="aff-b">Junior Resident (Third Year MD student), Department of Biochemistry, VMMC&amp; SJH, New Delhi, India</aff-id><aff-id id="aff-c">Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, VMMC&amp; SJH, New Delhi, India</aff-id><aff-id id="aff-d">Director-Professor &amp; HOD, Department of Biochemistry, VMMC&amp; SJH, New Delhi, India</aff-id><abstract>India&amp;nbsp;has emerged as an&amp;nbsp;outlier&amp;nbsp;in the&amp;nbsp;spread&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;COVID-19. Owing to the multifactorial influence, there is occurrence of low severity of&amp;nbsp;COVID-19&amp;nbsp;infection among Indians.</abstract></article-meta></front><body /><back /></article>