India is now reporting more daily coronavirus cases than any other country in the world, averaging above 60,000 cases each day
, India has reported an average of more than 66,000 cases over the past week, with numbers nearly reaching 70,000 last Friday.
Cases in Brazil and the United States, which were previously dealing with larger outbreaks, seem to have peaked in late July, steadily declining since. India, which imposed one of the strictest lockdowns at the start of the outbreak, has seen daily case counts grow steadily since April with no clear sign of a peak.
Several top political leaders in the country including the country’s Home Minister Amit Shah, former President Pranab Mukherjee, and many other union and state ministers have tested positive for the virus, with the 84-year-old former president being put on ventilator support. India’s problem has been compounded by poor availability of healthcare resources in rural parts of the country where nearly 600 million Indians live.Phase-I trials of ‘Covishield’, a licensed version of the vaccine candidate that is being developed by Oxford University and Astrazeneca.india, which now has the third-highest caseload in the world after the u.s.
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