{"id":9282,"date":"2021-04-26T13:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T05:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=9282"},"modified":"2021-04-26T13:59:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T05:59:57","slug":"second-wave-of-covid-19-in-india-projected-to-peak-in-mid-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=9282","title":{"rendered":"Second wave of COVID-19 in India projected to peak in mid-May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NEW DELHI, April 26 — The ongoing second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India is projected to come to its peak in the middle of May, Xinhua news agency reported citing the local media on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Projections presented at a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief ministers of the worst affected Indian states by COVID-19 showed that after the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat and the national capital New Delhi, the northern state of Uttar Pradesh would be a major hotspot with over 190,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 to be reported every day, according to the media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When reaching the peak time, the daily COVID-19 cases in the Asian country are expected to rise to 500,000 and may subside between June and July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The projections were presented by a senior federal government official at the meeting on Sunday, at which officials agreed that “heavily populated states are at particular risk; and, health infrastructure in states is not adequate enough to cope with the present serious scenario.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uttar Pradesh is projected to suffer a daily shortage of around 16,752 hospital beds with supplied medical oxygen, 3,061 intensive care unit beds, and of at least 1,538 ventilators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The COVID-19 figures continue to surge in India every day, as the federal government has ruled out imposing a complete lockdown to contain the worsening situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country’s COVID-19 tally reached 16,960,172 on Sunday with 349,691 new cases recorded in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the fourth consecutive day when over 300,000 cases were registered in a single day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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