India’s next million Covid-19 cases could come in weeks, Rahul Gandhi warns

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday once again warned India would record two million cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) by the second week of August, a day after the country reported a million infections.

India has now become only the third country in the world after the United States and Brazil with more than a million cases of the coronavirus disease.

The country crossed the million-mark in 137 days and half of these were in a hard nationwide lockdown announced in the early days of the pandemic.

“10,00,000 figures exceeded. If #COVID19 spreads at the same speed, more than 20,00,000 will be infected in the country by August 10,” Rahul Gandhi tweeted.

“The government must take concrete, planned steps to stop the epidemic,” he added.

Rahul Gandhi also attached his tweet from July 14 in which he had talked about the country’s infection tally crossing the million-mark during that week.

“This week the figure will cross 10,00,000 in our country,” he had tweeted in Hindi.

The Congress leader has been criticising the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Gandhi had on Monday questioned the Centre’s claims on battling Covid-19, asking if India was at a “good position” in the battle against the virus.

The country’s tally reached 1,004,652 with 36,247 new Covid-19 cases and 690 new fatalities putting the disease death toll in the four-and-a-half months of the outbreak at 25,594, according to an HT tally. (HT)