After having peaked in the middle of this month, COVID-19 infections could continue till March before turning endemic
India’s COVID-19 epidemic curve appears to have peaked during the middle two weeks, in September 2020, followed by a downtrend since then — if we work backwards for four weeks from September 26, 2020. Let the numbers tell the story.
What the data reveals
The weekly totals of reported new infections in those middle two weeks, namely, September 5 to 11 and September 12 to 18, were 6,37,136 and 6,48,096 cases, respectively. The week before the peak (August 29 to September 4), the total was 5,58,999. And the week after the peak (September 19 to 25), the number was 5,96,096 cases.
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