Watch | 'India May See Five Lakh COVID Cases, 3,000 Deaths a Day by May 1'

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Uploaded: 2021-04-22T22:45:45+05:30
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Description: Professor Bhramar Mukherjee of Michigan University tells Karan Thapar that in terms of infections, the peak will come in mid-May when India could see 8-10 lakh daily infections.

Professor Bhramar Mukherjee of Michigan University tells Karan Thapar that in terms of infections, the peak will come in mid-May when India could see 8-10 lakh daily infections.

Karan Thapar

Professor Bhramar Mukherjee of Michigan University tells Karan Thapar that in terms of infections, the peak will come in mid-May when India could see 8-10 lakh daily infections.

watch india may see five lakh covid cases 3 000 deaths a day by may 1

In an interview that will perhaps unnerve the government, one of America’s highly regarded epidemiologists and biostatisticians has said that according to her mathematical projections, India could have 500,000 daily COVID-19 cases and 3,000 daily COVID-19 deaths by May 1.

Professor Bhramar Mukherjee of Michigan University has told Karan Thapar in a 28-minute interview for The Wire that in terms of infections, the peak will come in mid-May when India could see 8-10 lakh daily infections and in terms of deaths, the peak will be two weeks later in May-end when India could expect 4,500 daily deaths.

This article went live on April twenty-second, two thousand twenty one, at forty-five minutes past ten at night.

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