SINGAPORE — India this week has set fresh records for new Covid-19 cases and deaths again, as a US study forecast daily fatalities in the country climbing further until mid-May.
Some 200,000 more people are expected to die from Covid-19 in India over the next three weeks before the daily death toll starts to fall, according to a study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in the United States. At its peak – around May 16 – India is likely to see more than 13,000 Covid-19 deaths a day, the projections showed.
That’s more than four times the 2,812 deaths the country reported on Monday, already another record high. New fataliti…
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