If exponential growth keeps up and we don’t find a cure, soon we will all be infected For about the last three weeks as I write this, the number of covid-19 cases detected in India has been rising at about 5% per day.
Some days a little more, some days a little less. Twelve times in those three weeks, we’ve seen ‘all-time highs’ in the number of cases detected in a day; the latest such high is 9,638, on 3 June.
The result of this steady increase is that as I write this, we’ve crossed 200,000 cases in India. To describe this phenomenon, a member of NITI Aayog, Dr V.K.
Paul, found an intriguing phrase to use. At a 22 May press conference, he said India had “stopped the progression of the virus." That’s right: you and I see an inexorable