MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s biggest cities braced for stricter lockdowns and other COVID-19 curbs on Saturday as infections hit a six-month high, as a month-long surge continued in the country third-worst hit by the pandemic. India’s richest state, Maharashtra, accounted for more than half of the 89,129 new cases reported by the national health ministry in the last 24 hours, with a record 47,827 infections. Daily coronavirus cases have surged from around 15,000 in early March to 88,000 or so at the start of April. The south Asian nation recorded 89,129 new infections and 714 deaths, the ministry said. India follows only the United States and Brazil in infections, with more than 12 million recorded since the start of the outbreak.

Source: Egypt Independent April 03, 2021 07:30 UTC