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Coronavirus cases could have increased to 8.2 lakh without lockdown: Centre

Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal had said on Saturday that the country has taken early preemptive action to identify COVID-19 hotspots, along with implementing other containment measures. ‘With containment measures but no lockdown, the number of cases could have risen to 1.2 lakh till April 15 and to 45,370 on April 11 at 28.9 per cent growth rate’, he had said.