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  Experts predicts 20 million COVID-19 Cases and 2.0 lakhs fatalities in India by close of this year -  ICMR Says Social Distancing can Reduce Spread by 62%. Three months ago, no one knew that a virus called SARS-CoV-2 would bring humanity to a halt. The outbreak, which started in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, has now spread to almost all countries and infected more than seven lakh people in India within a span of just three months. The deadly contagious virus has turned into a global pandemic — impacting businesses, travel, sports and day to day life of billions of people around the world. What’s the pattern of Virus spread? According to the World Health Organisation, the rapidly spreading COVID-19 took approximately 67 days (March 7) to infect the first one lakh persons. For the coronavirus to attack another one lakh population, the virus took 12 days (March 19). The next lakh of people contracted the infection in just four days—crossing the three lakh mark on March 23....

Is the world's second most populous country prepared for an outbreak of coronavirus? Mid March 2020, India says it was among the first countries in the world to prepare for an outbreak of the respiratory disease, which has already killed more than 3,000 people and spread to 60 countries. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan says India began screening people at airports from 17 January onwards, six days after Chinese state media reported the first known death from an illness caused by the virus and a good two weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a global health emergency. As of 6 March, India has reported 31 cases, the majority of them in the past few days. They include 16 Italian tourists. There's growing anxiety. Schools have begun sending out advisories, a few offices have shut temporarily after employees tested positive for Covid-19.     By end March 2020, more than 600,000 people had been tested for the virus at the country's 21 airports and 77 ...

  Coronavirus: What India can learn from the deadly 1918 flu       1918 flu pandemic is believed to have infected a third of the population worldwide All interest in living has ceased, Mahatma Gandhi, battling a vile flu in 1918, told a confidante at a retreat in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The highly infectious  Spanish flu  had swept through the ashram in Gujarat where 48-year-old Gandhi was living, four years after he had returned from South Africa. He rested, stuck to a liquid diet during "this protracted and first long illness" of his life. When news of his illness spread, a local newspaper wrote: "Gandhi's life does not belong to him - it belongs to India". Outside, the deadly flu, which slunk in through a ship of returning soldiers that docked in Bombay (now Mumbai) in June 1918, ravaged India. The disease, according to health inspector JS Turner, came "like a thief in the night, its onset rapid and insidious". A second wave...