
1. COVID19 new case count increased by 76,826 to the total of 33,84,575 on 27th August 2020 with 7-days growth rate of 2.21% and a doubling period of 31.7 days. The moving averages indicate an upward trend in the daily count. From the data, it seems that India is yet to hit the coronavirus peak.
2. The 7-days growth rate of the active cases was 0.97% with a doubling period of 71.7 days with the active case count of 7,39,818 on 27th August 2020. Active cases are continuously increasing and the growth rate of active cases has almost doubled. This is due to lower numbers of recoveries in comparison to daily case count. After two weeks, growth rate in the active cases would start falling with improving daily recovery rate.