Understand the second Covid wave better: Improve surveillance April 2, 2021, 2:15 PM IST TOI Quick Edits are written by a team of seasoned journalists from the Times of India's Edit Page and TOI-Online who respond to important news stories as they develop. The team comprises senior journalists with wide-ranging interests who debate and opine on the news and issues of the day. LESS... MORE With India’s Covid case count surging to 81,000 fresh cases on Thursday after recording 72,000 cases the day before, the suspicion among health experts that the virus has become more infectious and less lethal needs to be probed closely. The hypothesis has arisen because of the much lower fatality rate in Maharashtra during the second wave compared to the first wave even as cases have mushroomed uncontrollably.