The 86,432 new cases took India to 4,023,179 infections, 3rd behind the United States which has more than 6.3 million and just trailing Brazil on 4.1 million.
Maharashtra state, which includes Mumbai, has been at the centre of the crisis in India since a nationwide lockdown was imposed in March. It still accounts for nearly a quarter of the new daily cases across the country of 1.3 billion.
Shamika Ravi, an economics professor and former government advisor who has closely followed pandemic trends in India, said that India is"nowhere close" to a peak and Maharashtra must become the"focus" of the campaign against the coronavirus. "There is no controlling Covid-19 in India without controlling the outbreak in Maharashtra," she said on Twitter.
"Given its economic significance, Maharashtra will continue to influence the spread of infection elsewhere in the country." – Rappler.com
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