New Delhi (Reuters) – India on Sunday recorded the largest single-day coronavirus infection in any nation due to the Kovid-1p epidemic, as its center shifted to the South Asian giant.
File photo: Gujarat state officials disinfected the seat of an air-conditioned passenger bus after easing lockdown restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ahmedabad. , India, 27 August Gust, 2020. Rears / Amit Dave
As of July 16, India’s 78,761 cases had surpassed 77,299 reported in the United States, according to official Reuters figures.
The world’s second most populous country, with 4.44 million cases, is the third most affected by the epidemic, after the United States and Brazil, but its daily levels have surpassed those of the other two countries for almost two weeks.
The death toll from Covid-19 in India has risen by 948 to 49,498, according to federal health ministry figures.
Maharashtra, India’s richest and most urban state, has lost 1,331 people, the highest increase in a single day in all the states, followed by South Karnataka with 1,136 deaths.
Despite the growing number of cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing for a return to normalcy to ease the economic woes of the epidemic, which has already led to a severe lockdown of 1.3 billion people in the country.
The federal home ministry has decided to reopen the underground train network in New Delhi, the capital of about 200 million people, with some restrictions.
The subway race will start on March 7 for the first time since March, when India imposed the world’s toughest lockdown to spread the new coronavirus.
Cinemas, swimming pools, amusement parks and other such places will be closed.
The lockdown has led to massive job losses and an economic downturn.
India’s record-breaking recession will remain unchanged throughout the year, as renewed consumption and business activity pick up again, according to a Reuters poll.
Report by Mayank Bhardwaj and Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Edited by Clarence Fernandez and William Mallard
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