India becomes third country to pass 4 million COVID-19 cases
06 September, 2020
India is among the most 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 america which has a lot more than 6.3 million and just trailing Brazil on 4.1 million.
While the government has eased restrictions in a bid to revive the economy, India now gets the world's fastest-growing number of cases at a lot more than 80,000 a day and the highest daily death toll at a lot more than 1,000.
The country's caseload has gone from three to four million in only 13 days, faster than the United States and Brazil.
The pandemic is currently spreading through rural areas which have illness facilities but is also resurging in big cities like Delhi and Mumbai.
Maharashtra state, which include Mumbai, has been at the centre of the crisis in India since a nationwide lockdown was imposed in March.
It still makes up about nearly 25 % of the brand new daily cases in the united states of 1 1.3 billion.
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 without controlling the outbreak in Maharashtra," she said on Twitter.
"Given its monetary significance, Maharashtra will continue steadily to influence the spread of infection elsewhere in the united states."
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