NEW DELHI: India has become the world's third country to pass four million COVID-19 infections, setting a new record daily surge in cases on Saturday (Sep 5) as the crisis shows no sign of peaking.
The 86,432 new cases took India to 4,023,179 infections, third behind the United States which has more than 6.3 million and just trailing Brazil on 4.1 million.
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READ: Tiny village offers window into India's surging COVID-19 caseload
While the government has eased restrictions in a bid to revive the economy, India now has the world's fastest-growing number of cases at more than 80,000 a day and the highest daily death toll at more than 1,000.
The country's caseload has gone from three to four million in just 13 days, faster than the United States and Brazil.
The pandemic is now spreading through rural areas which have poor health facilities but is also resurging in big cities like Delhi and Mumbai.
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Maharashtra state, which includes Mumbai, has been at the centre of the crisis in India since a nationwide lockdown was imposed in March.
It still accounts for nearly a quarter of the new daily cases across the country of 1.3 billion.
READ: How a US$13 device is helping Delhi fight COVID-19
Shamika Ravi, an economics professor and former government advisor who has closely followed pandemic trends in India, said that India is "nowhere close" to a peak and Maharashtra must become the "focus" of the campaign against the coronavirus.
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NEW DELHI: India has become the world's third country to pass four million COVID-19 infections, setting a new record daily surge in cases on Saturday (Sep 5) as the crisis shows no sign of peaking.
The 86,432 new cases took India to 4,023,179 infections, third behind the United States which has more than 6.3 million and just trailing Brazil on 4.1 million.
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READ: Tiny village offers window into India's surging COVID-19 caseload
While the government has eased restrictions in a bid to revive the economy, India now has the world's fastest-growing number of cases at more than 80,000 a day and the highest daily death toll at more than 1,000.
The country's caseload has gone from three to four million in just 13 days, faster than the United States and Brazil.
The pandemic is now spreading through rural areas which have poor health facilities but is also resurging in big cities like Delhi and Mumbai.
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Maharashtra state, which includes Mumbai, has been at the centre of the crisis in India since a nationwide lockdown was imposed in March.
It still accounts for nearly a quarter of the new daily cases across the country of 1.3 billion.
READ: How a US$13 device is helping Delhi fight COVID-19
Shamika Ravi, an economics professor and former government advisor who has closely followed pandemic trends in India, said that India is "nowhere close" to a peak and Maharashtra must become the "focus" of the campaign against the coronavirus.
"There is no controlling COVID-19 in India withoutRead More – Source
