India's first COVID-19 case was detected on 30 th  January 2020, then 2 more cases were reported by 3 rd  February. There was no case reported from anywhere in the country during the month of February till 2nd March. There after, the COVID-19 infections started to slowly spread across the country. As on 14 th  March, the total confirmed positive cases reached a figure of 107. This has further increased to 223 on 20th March, showing the number of confirmed cases doubled within less than 7 days. As per the latest data released by MoHFW at 8 AM on 20th April, the confirmed cases reached 18601. FIRST PREDICTION ICMR data on 21 st  March shown that there are 315 confirmed cases, while the MoHFW release shown this as 283, this inconsistency of figures between the two entities of Union Government continues even today. However, I have taken MoHFW figures here for my analysis. The data on 21st March showed that the confirmed cases were doubl...

India’s COVID-19 testing invited a lot of criticism as Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) hold on to a rigid and limited testing criteria, which was at best can be described as ‘don’t test, don’t find’. Finally ICMR forced to scale up their testing numbers, widen their laboratory network and also expanded the testing criteria. At present, there are 143 Government laboratories, 67 private laboratories and 3 collection sites,  totalling 213  spread across 35 States and Union Territories of India except Lakshadweep Islands. As per ICMR  press release  dated 13 th  March 2020, they disclosed that they have tested more than 6500 samples from 5900 individuals and out of that 78 were confirmed as positive cases. As per the bulletin published by ICMR on 9 th  April, 144910 samples from 130792 individuals were tested and out of that 5705 are detected as positives. It is also mentioned that within the last 24 hours, 16002 samples were tested, whic...