Ultimately, Half of India Will Get COVID-19 But That’s to be Expected and is Not Worrying

In a 37-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Prof. Muliyil said he accepted and agreed with Harvard Professor Ashish Jha’s forecast India could see a total of 200,000 cases a day by August. He also agreed with a forecast made by Ramanan Laxminarayan, the Director of the Washington-based Center for Disease Dynamics, that India could have 200 million cases by September. (Both Jha and Laxminarayan made these comments in interviews to The Wire). Prof. Muliyil explained that given the size of the Indian population (1.38 billion) these may sound like huge numbers but in proportion to the population they are not.