Health Ministry's Projection on How Lockdown Helps is Not By ICMR

Cases Would’ve Crossed 45000 Without Lockdown: Health Ministry

At the daily briefing for COVID-19, Lav Agrawal, Joint Secretary for the Health Ministry said that India may have reported over 45000 cases today and 1.2 lakh cases by 15 April if the lockdown hadn’t been enforced on 24 March.

Moreover, if other containment measures (along with the lockdown), had also not been implemented, this figure would have risen over 2 lakh today and 8.2 lakh by 15 April, increasing at the cumulative growth rate of 41 percent.