A team of advisers to Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suggested that the COVID-19 outbreak could peak in the coming days, but its projections have been changing and were wrong last month, reported Bloomberg.

However, the group’s forecast is important to keep in mind as some other scientists have suggested a mid-May peak for India as well.

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According to the team’s mathematical model and current projections, India will hit 20,000 cases per day by the end of June. “We will revise this as needed,” said Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Hyderabad, referring to the model prepared with Manindra Agrawal, a professor from IIT Kanpur.

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India on Thursday reported its highest single-day spike of 414,188 cases of coronavirus taking the nation’s tally of coronavirus infections to 21,491,598. A total of 234,083 people have died of the disease until now.

These numbers, as per the Bloomberg report quoting experts, likely underplay the real toll as India’s crematoriums and hospitals have been overwhelmed. This makes the assessment of any peak particularly complicated.

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In April, Vidyasagar’s team predicted that the COVID wave would peak by the middle of the month, which was wrong. He then told India Today that the peak would come on May 7.

Meanwhile, scientists worry that new variants of novel coronavirus can become the next blindspot that can stretch the pandemic for the whole world.