Half of India will have had Covid-19 by Feb 2021: govt panel

At least half of India's 1.3 billion people are likely to have been infected with the Covid-19 by next February, helping slow the spread of the disease, a central government committee tasked with providing projections said on Monday.
The committee warned that their projections would not hold up if precautions were not followed, and cases could spike by up to 2.6 million infections in a single month if measures such as social distancing and wearing masks were ignored.
India has so far reported 7.55 million cases of the coronavirus and is second only to the United States in terms of total infections.