The Global Innovation Index (GII) has ranked India in the 48th position amongst 131 economies. With this, India has broken into the top 50 countries on the global innovation list. The GII ranks countries based on their innovation capabilities, including around 80 indicators, grouped into innovation and outputs. Meanwhile, the Covid-19 pandemic is severely pressuring a long-building rise in worldwide innovation, likely hindering some innovative activities while catalysing ingenuity elsewhere, notably in the health sector, according to the GII 2020.