New delhi sources stated that India crossed the 7 lakh and fifty thousand mark on thursday with 22,252 fresh covid19 cases and 467 deaths in the last 24 hours. A study predicted that india might record 2.87 lakh coronavirus cases per day by february 2021. india will be severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic early next year in the absence of vaccine. Scientists Hazhir Rahmandad, TY Lim and john Sterman of MIT's Sloan school of Management used the SEIR (Susceptible, Exposed, Infectious, and Recovered) model, a standard mathematical model for infectious diseases used by epidemiologists, for their analysis. They also predicted that the number of worldwide cases would be between 20 crore and 60 crore by March-May 2021 if the vaccine remains elusive.
It is reported that US will have 95,000 cases per day and it is followed by south africa (21,000 cases per day) and iran (17,000 cases per day) by the end of february 2021. The Union health Ministry said that national positivity rate stands at 6.73%. The World health Organization has said that in countries that have conducted testing for coronavirus should remain at 5% or lower for at least 14 days.
According to the health reports, more than 60% of people have recovered from the coronavirus infection. There are 7,19,665 positive cases in the country till date. A total of 20,160 succumbed to the virus in the country. The number of recovered cases exceeded that of the active cases by 1,80,390 on Tuesday. The recovery rate also increased to 61.13 per cent. The indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that a total of 1,04,73,771 samples have been tested for coronavirus till date. On tuesday, a total of 2,62,679 samples were tested
