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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
The country’s COVID-19 tally reached 16,960,172 on Sunday with 349,691 new cases recorded in the past 24 hours.
This was the fourth consecutive day when over 300,000 cases were registered in a single day.
— BERNAMA
More Stories
Border Security Tightened in Kelantan Following Southern Thailand Attacks, No Infiltration Detected
No Malaysians Affected in Southern Thailand Security Incidents, Wisma Putra Issues Safety Advisory
Thunderous Booms from Southern Thailand Attacks Rattle Border Villages in Pasir Mas