India 20 Million Cases

• Modi faces growing pressure to lock down India as COVID-19 crisis devastates country

  Many medical experts and critics have suggested a lockdown is the only option as the virus rages in cities and towns, with hospitals forced to turn patients away.

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  May 7, 2021
  
• India sets new record of 412K COVID-19 cases, nearly 4K deaths as infections spread

  COVID-19 infections in the world's second most populous nation have surged past 21 million, with a death toll of 230,168, health ministry data show.

  World

  May 6, 2021
  
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• India reports nearly 3,800 COVID-19 deaths in single day, a new record amid crisis

  The surge of the highly infectious new variant of the coronavirus has seen hospitals runs out of beds and oxygen and left morgues and crematoriums overflowing.

  Health

  May 5, 2021
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• India braces for ‘horrible’ weeks ahead as COVID-19 cases soar past 20 million

  The country has witnessed scenes of people dying outside overwhelmed hospitals and funeral pyres lighting up the night sky, as the case count and death toll surges.

  World

  May 4, 2021