New Delhi has gone into a weekend lockdown as India faces a ferocious new coronavirus wave, with daily cases hitting another record increase of two hundred and thirty-four thousand six hundred ninety-two nationwide, and families clamouring for drugs and hospital beds.
Indian Health Ministry said the latest number is the eighth record high in the last nine days, with total cases gone past fourteen point five million, second only to the United States which has reported more than thirty-two million infections.
The Ministry said India’s deaths from COVID-19 rose by one thousand three hundred and forty-one to reach a total of one hundred and seventy-five thousand six hundred and forty-nine.
Hopes that South Asian countries might have beaten the pandemic have been dashed, with India seeing more than two million new cases this month alone, and Bangladesh as well as Pakistan imposing shutdowns.
India’s per-capita rates remain low by international comparison, raising the prospect that infection numbers, possibly fuelled by a virulent new “double mutant”, may explode further.
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