Before revision:  We provide simple analytic expressions for these in terms of the disease parameters and apply them in the Indian context to obtain heuristic projections for the course of the pandemic . We find that the predictions strongly depend on the assumed fraction of asymptomatic carriers.
After revision:  We provide simple analytic expressions for these in terms of the disease parameters and apply them in the Indian context to obtain heuristic projections for the course of the pandemic , and note that the predictions strongly depend on the assumed fraction of asymptomatic carriers.