Pakistan might control Covid-19 by June 8, India by May 21: study

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Peoples wearing facemasks walk past outside an hospital entrance in Karachi on February 17, 2020, after a gas leak killed five people and sickened dozens of others in a coastal residential area in Pakistan's port city of Karachi. (Photo by Rizwan TABASSUM / AFP)

Singapore: Pakistan might control the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic by June 8, the researchers at a Singapore University said.

The researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design have been using the data through the artificial intelligence to assess how long the various countries will take to control the pandemic.

They said that the university had issued the estimates under the SIR Epidemic Model.

According to the their SIR Epidemic Model,  the pandemic has so far not reached to its peak in Pakistan. It added that Pakistan by taking strict precautions might control the spread of infections by June 8.

They claimed that India might manage to control the spread of Covid 19 by May 21.

About the US, the researchers said that it is likely to control 97 per cent of the pnademic by May 11.