Asia Today: India counted another record daily increase of coronavirus infections after Modi’s government faced scathing opposition criticism in Parliament for its handling of the pandemic and a contracting economy that has left millions jobless.
A man reacts as health workers help collect a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. As India’s coronavirus confirmed cases jump by a record 97,894 cases in the past 24 hours, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government faced a scathing opposition criticism in Parliament for its handling of the pandemic and a contracting economy leaving millions jobless on Thursday.
Confirmed cases jumped by 97,894 in the past 24 hours, raising India’s total past 5.1 million, 0.36% of its nearly 1.4 billion people, the Health Ministry reported.are third-most in the world, but experts say India has undercounted the COVID-19 toll.India’s infection numbers are expected within weeks to pass the United States, where more than 6.6 million people have been infected.
As India’s Parliament resumed sittings after a gap of five months, Anand Sharma, Derek O’Brien and other opposition leaders criticized Modi for abruptly imposing a two-month lockdown across the country in March. They said Modi gave no time to state governments to prepare for handling the pandemic and preventing distress to millions of migrant workers who fled their places of work to return to their village homes.
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