Here’s what Indians looked up on Google amid the coronavirus pandemic

Google search for the term ‘coronavirus’ in India grew tremendously over the last couple of months, according to a study by SEMrush, an online visibility management and content marketing platform.

The study which was aimed at capturing the extent of the Indian public’s awareness about the coronavirus outbreak and what steps the public is taking to prevent infection, found that the number of times the word “coronavirus” was searched online grew an astounding 2.54 lakh per cent from December 2019 to January 2020.

In December 2019, users searched for the term “coronavirus” 2,400 times. Google search for the term spiked up to 61 lakh in January 2020. In February, the keyword “coronavirus” was searched 162.5 per cent more as compared to January. In India, it was searched over 1.6 crore times in February.