The centre was given advance warning - on April 2 - of a surge in coronavirus cases that would peak around the middle of May, Dr M Vidyasagar, who is a professor at IIT (Hyderabad) and leads the Covid-19 Supermodel Committee, told NDTV on Monday night.
Dr Vidyasagar said the centre was warned of a predicted peak of around 1.2 lakh new cases per day sometime between May 15-22. The timing of the peak was later revised to the first week of May.
The IIT (Kanpur) scientists had said daily cases in the second wave would peak by May 8. The Kanpur study also predicted a peak of 38 to 44 lakh active cases between May 14 and 18.