Slow, but consistent: On COVID-19 spread in India

With 52,469 confirmed cases and 1,771 fatalities as on May 6, 2020, India went into the list of the top 15 countries with the greatest number of people infected by the novel coronavirus The infection count in India accounted for only 1.41%of the total COVID-19 cases the world over, however this proportion has actually increased from 0.13%(536 cases) on March 24, the day when lockdown procedures were announced, to 0.58%(11,487 cases) when the lockdown was extended to what it is presently. The number of infections continues to surge in the U.S., where as on May 6 there were more than 1.2 million cases, almost a third (327%) of the world’s overall. While badly affected countries such as Italy, Spain, the U.K., France, Germany, Turkey and Iran