Ivermectin is for side treatment, and yes it is used in India. It is used in more countries than the horse dewormer MSM narrative would have told you, which would be... most of the countries. You might be shocked to know that even steroids are used for treatment in case of severe viral load and/or illness.
Side treatments supplement and support the main treatment, since during COVID illness you cannot get the vaccine, as your body systems are too weak. Once you recover in a few months, after you have sufficiently low COVID antibodies developed from contracting COVID, you get the vaccine (generally 4-6 months later).
In a nutshell, ordinary people know nothing more than what Western MSM news media tells them, and the handful people who choose to read reputed journal papers like Lancet. These are the same news media that called China's measures draconian (actually effective), then followed with "brave" headlines when USA, Italy and other countries copypasted the same measures.
t. Indian whose dad is a doctor