The Health Minister attributed the figure to a prediction done by scientists. Research-based on their techniques found that COVID appropriate behaviour for 3-4 months will lead to declining trend in India and by Feb we'll have 40,000 active cases, Harsh Vardhan was quoted by news agency ANI as saying. Meanwhile, the number of active cases stayed below eight lakh for the third consecutive day today and comprised 10.45% of the total caseload. There are 77,20,55 active cases of coronavirus infection as on date. The total number of recoveries have surged to 66,63,608 and exceed active cases by 5,891,553, as per the Union Health Ministry.

Source: Mint October 19, 2020 12:21 UTC