India's COVID-19 tally went pass 7,42,417 on Wednesday as it reported 22,000 COVID-19 cases in a single day, even as the recovery rate extra improved to over 61.5 per cent, as per the data from Union Health Ministry.
The number of patients who succumbed to the novel coronavirus now has passed over 20,642, with 482 new deaths reported. On the other hand, a number of recoveries now stands at 4,56,830, while there are 2,64,944 active cases of the contagion in the nation.
RECORD CASES IN 2021?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA have stated that India might report 2.87 lakh COVID-19 cases per day by February 2021 in the lack of a vaccine for the infection.
The team at the MIT stated that India will be the worst affected nation due to coronavirus, followed by the USA (95,000 cases per day), South Africa (21,000 cases per day) and Iran (17,000 cases per day) by the end of February next year.
The researchers took into account three scenes: (1) current testing rates and their response, (2) if testing increases by 0.1 per cent per day from July 1, 2020, and (3) if testing remains at current levels but contact rate to perceived risk is set to 8 (that is if one infected person can infect eight people).
The team also said that if testing rates remain at the recent level but the contact rate is set to 8, then the digit of cases and deaths would failure significantly. As per the third scenario predicted by the researchers, global COVID-19 cases would then be up to 60 crore.
GLOBAL CASES
Global coronavirus cases exceeded 12 million (1.2 crore) on Wednesday as indication mounts of the airborne spread of the infection that has killed more than half a million people in the span of seven months.
