Chennai: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today urged the government to take concrete steps to prevent the spread of coronavirus, saying if it keeps spreading at the current pace then there will be more than 20 lakh cases by 10 August.
“10,00,000-mark has been crossed. If Covid-19 spreads at this pace, by August 10, more than 20,00,000 will be infected in the country,’ the former Congress president said in a tweet in Hindi.”
He said the government must adopt strict measures to contain the situation.
The number of Covid-19 cases in India crossed the 1 million (10 lakh) mark as more than 35,000 new infections were detected in last 24 hours.
India’s journey from half a million to 1 million cases has taken just 20 days. Only two countries, the United States and Brazil, have a larger caseload than India