'Peak Reached But Plateauing at High Level; Total Cases Could Hit 32M by June With 1 L More Deaths'

In an interview that contains both good and depressing news, one of America’s foremost epidemiologists, who has closely monitored the trajectory of Covid-19 in India since the start of the pandemic last year, says it does seem that the present Covid surge has reached its peak but, thereafter, we are plateauing at a very high level of cases per day. Bhramar Mukherjee, Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Global Public Health at Michigan University, says that two weeks from now (i.e. end May/early June) India’s daily increase in Covid cases will be between 150,000 and 200,000. At that point the daily increase in deaths will be 3,000 a day. At the moment the daily increase in cases is 325,000 and daily deaths are just under 4,000.