Actual Covid-19 cases in India may be 5 to 10 times higher, says epidemiologist

Epidemiologist Dr Eric Feigl-Ding told India Today TV on Friday that the actual number of Covid-19 cases in India can be five or ten times higher than the tally right now. "Because even in developed countries, we know they are not capturing every case. We know that the window of opportunity to test positive cases is sometimes very narrow and in addition, we do not have enough testing capacity in so many countries," he said in an exclusive interview.

India has reported a record 2,17,353 Covid-19 cases and 1,185 deaths due to infection in the past 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry on Friday, taking the caseload in the country to over 1.42 crore. India crossed the 2-lakh mark in the daily Covid-19 cases on Thursday, for the first time since the pandemic began in the country back in 2020.