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Coronavirus cases in India may reach 800,000 in July: Michigan University study
MUMBAI : After giving up on a costly lockdown, India is projected to see its coronavirus outbreak nearly triple over the next month to more than 800,000 cases as the country’s leaders tell citizens to learn to live with the virus.The forecast from a team of data scientists at the University of Michigan would put India just below Brazil, the world’s second worst-hit country right now, and on track to surpass the Latin American country given its massive population of 1.3 billion people and the ongoing relaxation of virus containment measures.“You cannot see the peak, it’s been pushed further in time," said Bhramar Mukherjee, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Michigan who is part of the team that’s modeling India’s