The comments by Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, a Washington-based institute, that India could soon be dealing with a ‘tsunami’ of coronavirus cases, has predictably raised alarm.
Dr Laxminarayan, who has been ubiquitous in various media platforms in India ever since the epidemic outbreak, recently told BBC that based on the mathematical models applied in the US or UK, India could be dealing with about 300 million cases, of which about 4 million to 5 million could be severe.
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