Text Size: A+ New Delhi: Officially, India has reported 26.9 million (2.69 crore) Covid-19 cases and 307,231 (3.07 lakh) deaths as of 24 May 2021, but an analysis by The New York Times says the actual figures are likely to be much higher — 700.7 million (70.07 crore) cases and 4.2 million (42 lakh) deaths in a worst-case scenario. Published on 25 May, the report titled ‘ Just How Big Could India’s True Covid Toll Be?‘, NYT says it arrived at this estimate after studying the case and death counts, the results of three national serosurveys conducted and consulting with more than a dozen experts. The experts consulted included Kayoko Shioda, an epidemiologist at Emory University, Dan Weinberger, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy and Dr Paul Novosad, an associate professor of economics at Dartmouth College.