COVID-19 spread in the country, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) director general Balram Bhargava on Tuesday said, "We distributed the COVID-19 curve in a way that we didn't have many deaths.
It was because we had an effective lockdown. We didn't have a huge peak at all," according to news agency ANI.Bhargava further added, "US and European countries had a peak, then they came down and there is a second wave occurring there.
We took learning from that."India's coronavirus tally reached 49-lakh mark on Tuesday, according to the data released by ministry of health and family welfare.
At least 83,809 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours. The total number of coronavirus cases in the country stood at.