India has been unable to contain novel coronavirus infection. Public health experts believe that it's on track to become the country hit hardest by Covid-19. This means that India will overtake the United States in the next few weeks.

Coronavirus has ravaged the whole world but particularly U.S. and India have been most adversely affected by the virus. These two countries are the current global epicenters of the viral disease, and the number of daily new cases are still being reported in abundant.

India is closing in on the U.S. Covid tally. To date, over 7.9 million cases have been reported in India while the United States has reported 8.9 million cases. It should be noted that the U.S. has tested far more people than India. Total tests conducted in the U.S. are 134,476,092 while India has sampled 103,462,778 people so far.

Texas, California, Florida, New York, and Illinois are the top five worst affected states by coronavirus in the United States. While Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu are hit hardest in India.

Comparison of both countries:

• United States:

Total cases: 8,962,783

New cases in last week: 8,528,744

New cases in the last two weeks: 8,099,149

• India:

Total cases: 7,945,888

New cases in last week: 7,649,158

New cases in the last two weeks: 7,237,082

Though the U.S. has seen a serious surge in new cases this week and India has reported a lower number of new cases in comparison, health experts believe that the huge population of India and the poor healthcare infrastructure are the two main factors that will contribute to India surpassing U.S. tally in coming weeks.