India's COVID-19 Tally Has Crossed 9 Lakh, All It Took To Cross 8 To 9 Lakh Was 3 Days

On Tuesday, India crossed yet another grim milestone in its struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic as the total number of cases reported in the country crossed 9 lakhs.

In the next 24 hours, a record of 29,429 new infections was reported from across the country taking the total so far to 9,36,181.

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The number of COVID-19 cases in India has been exploding at an alarming pace and we went from 8 lakhs to 9 lakhs in a matter of just three days.

If the current rate of infections continues, the number of COVID-19 cases in India will cross 10,000 in the next couple of days.

India had reported the first COVID-19 cases on January 30, when a medical student who had returned from Wuhan, China, where the virus originated tested positive.

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The number of COVID-19 cases crossed the one lakh mark on May 19, which is 110 days since the first cases were reported.

It took 64 days for Covid-19 cases in India to touch the one lakh-mark from 100 cases, and another fortnight to cross two lakh cases on June 3. It took 10 days for the tally to touch the three lakh-mark and another eight days for the cases to climb to four lakh.

And then India went from one lakhs to five lakhs in a matter of just 39 days on June 26. Out of this, the last five lakhs happened in just five days.

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On July 1, the COVID-19 cases breached the 6 lakh mark and 7 lakh on July 6.

By July 10, India crossed eight lakh cases and on 13th, it crossed nine lakh.

With the pandemic not showing any signs of slowing down, a recent study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could turn out to be true.

It had warned that the number of COVID-19 cases recorded per day in India may surge to 2.87 lakh by early 2021 if a vaccine or treatment isn¡¯t developed soon.

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In their study, titled ¡®Estimating the global spread of COVID-19¡¯, Researchers Hazhir Rahmandad, TY Lim and John Sterman of MIT¡¯s Sloan School of Management have predicted that India may record the highest number of fresh cases in the world by the end of winter in 2021.

Currently, India is the third-worst COVID-19 affected country in the world after the United States and Brazil.

Researchers have predicted that India will soon surpass the US.

By the end of February 2021, the US will record the second-highest number of new cases (95,000 cases per day), followed by South Africa (21,000 cases per day), Iran (17,000 cases per day), and Indonesia (13,000 cases per day), the study suggested.