Worst-case scenario: India to have 35 lakh Covid-19 cases by September 1, finds IISc study

BENGALURU: Going by the current national trend, a worse case scenario projection made by a team at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) estimates that India would have a few more than 35 lakh cases by September 1, while Karnataka will have 2.1 lakh. Of these, 10 lakh and 71,300 will be active cases, respectively.

In a scenario that is better than the current trend, India is expected to hit a peak of 4.78 lakh active cases in the second week of September, while there will be around 1.4 lakh active cases, 1.88 lakh deaths and 37.4 lakh total cases at the end of March 2021.

Comparatively, worse case scenario projection shows that Maharashtra will have 6.3 lakh total cases and 2.1 lakh active cases, it would be 2.4