India has posted a one-day world record of more than 90,000 positive coronavirus cases, taking the country further Brazil as the second most infected country in the world, with 4.2 million confirmed cases.
On Sunday, India recorded 90,802 new cases and 1,016 deaths. The worst affected state remains Maharashtra, home to the financial capital, Mumbai. It has had nearly a quarter of the country’s total infections, and on Sunday reported a record 23,350 new cases.
In the capital Delhi, the city’s metro system reopened on Monday morning, despite the city having a five-day moving average of more than 2,500 cases. The reopening comes more than five months after the service was shut down due to Covid-19.
“We have deployed police forces in every subway station to manage crowds and to make sure people wear masks and follow social distancing rules,” Atul Katiya, deputy police commissioner told the Indian news agency ANI.
The metro in Lucknow, capital of India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, also reopened on Monday after a five-month shutdown.
India’s economy has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, contracting nearly 24% in the three months to June, its worst performance since records began in 1996.
Despite its high number of cases, the death toll in the country is just over 71,000 and, according to the Health Ministry, the fatality rate fell to 1.72% on Sunday.
Brazil now ranks third globally, with 4.13 million cases. the US it has 6.27 million boxes.
The number of daily cases is also increasing in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In France, the authorities have put on high alert seven more departments covering major cities such as Lille, Strasbourg and Dijon. The move comes as the nation reported a record nearly 9,000 daily cases on Friday, and another 8,550 cases in the last 24 hours on Saturday, as the nationwide test positivity rate rose to 4.7%.
the UK Nearly 3,000 cases were confirmed Sunday, the highest number since May, while infections are increasing in 22 US states, according to a Reuters analysis. The American trend is concerning on a Labor Day holiday weekend, traditionally filled with family gatherings and parties to mark the end of summer.
South Korea Meanwhile, it has added 119 more cases of the coronavirus, its lowest daily jump in more than three weeks amid a downward trend in new cases.
Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday the additional figures brought the country’s total to 21,296 with 336 deaths.
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Australia on Monday it said it would receive the first batches of a potential Covid-19 vaccine in January 2021, as the country’s virus hotspot said the number of new daily infections has dropped to a 10-week low, Reuters reports.
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Hospitalized patients with Covid-19 still have lung damage, shortness of breath and cough weeks after being discharged, the researchers found.
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Global coronavirus cases topped 27 million, with 883,339 confirmed deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.
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