India's Covid-19 deaths will rise sharply till mid-May: US study, Asia


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SINGAPORE - India on Monday (April 26) set fresh records for new Covid-19 cases and deaths again, as a US study forecast daily fatalities in the country climbing further until mid-May. Some 200,000 more people are expected to die from Covid-19 in India over the next three weeks before the daily death toll starts to fall, according to a study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in the United States. At its peak - around May 16 - India is likely to see more than 13,000 Covid-19 deaths a day, the projections...