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India likely to witness peak in coronavirus COVID-19 cases in June-July: AIIMS director
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- May 07, 2020
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Even as India fights the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic on a war-footing taking all the necessary step to flatten the curve of the infection, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Director Randeep Guleria on Thursday warned that the country is yet to witness a peak in coronavirus COVID-19 cases in the months of June and July.
Guleria said that the positive cases will see a further increase in the coming months. He also added that there will be a decrease or halt in the number of cases only after the peak months or after two to three months.
He asserted that the government have to increase the number of COVID-19 quarantine and testing centres. Strict measures should be imposed in hotspots areas or zones, advised Guleria.
The battle against coronavirus is that of the people and they have to cooperate by observing basic rules like social distancing, using sanitisers and washing hands.
The fight against the pandemic will continue for a long time. In this way, there will be a change in everyone’s lifestyle. New normal rules like social distancing and wearing masks have to be inculcated while visiting shopping malls and movie theatres.
This comes at the heels of a meeting by Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan saying, “The testing capacity has increased in the country and it is 95,000 tests per day with 327 Government laboratories and 118 private laboratories. Cumulatively, 13,57,442 tests have been done so far for COVID-19.” He stated that as on May 7, a total of 52,952 cases have been reported from the country in which 15,266 persons have been cured and 1,783 deaths had occurred.