India Surpasses 1 Million COVID-19 Cases As Global Crisis Worsens
File photo: People walk at the sea front after the government eased a lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Mumbai on June 8, 2020. India on Friday became the third country in the world to record one million coronavirus cases, following Brazil and the United States where infections also continued to surge.
India’s surpassing of one million infections came a day after confirmed cases in Brazil topped two million.File photo: Stranded migrant labourers walk to an assembling centre to get transferred to a railway station to board on a special train to Bihar after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Chennai on May 30, 2020.
India’s main hotspots had previously been the megacities of Mumbai and New Delhi, but smaller cities and rural areas — where 70 percent of Indians live — have recently begun to raise the alarm. “The fear of catching the infection is very real as I am in a high-risk zone almost round the clock,” Showkat Nazir Wani, a doctor working at an intensive care unit at Sharda Hospital just outside the capital New Delhi, told AFP.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed the idea, saying Russia has “nothing to do with these attempts”.In Europe leaders from the 27-member EU bloc are gearing up for their first in-person meeting in five months on Friday, where they will discuss a post-virus economic rescue plan.
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