Half of Indians may have had coronavirus by February, govt panel estimates | Malay Mail

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MUMBAI, Oct 19 — At least half of India’s 1.3 billion people are likely to have been infected with the new coronavirus by next February, helping slow the spread of the disease, a member of a federal government committee tasked with providing projections said today. India has so far reported...

Monday, 19 Oct 2020 07:51 PM MYT

India has so far reported 7.55 million cases of the coronavirus and is second only to the United States in terms of total infections. The committee’s estimate for the current spread of the virus is much higher than the federal government’s serological surveys, which showed that only around 14 per cent of the population had been infected, as of September.

 

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