UPDATED. Infections have now risen above 4.2 million, surpassing Brazil's total and making India's tally the second highest, behind the United States' 6.25 million.
overtook Brazil on Monday, September 7, as the country with the second highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases, even as key metro train lines reopened as part of efforts to boost the South Asian nation's battered economy., although cases continue to soar across the globe with reported infections worldwide nearing 27 million and deaths surpassing 880,000.
Infections have now risen above 4.2 million, surpassing Brazil's total and making India's tally the second highest, behind the United States' 6.25 million. "For our lives to move on, we have to get out of our homes…so this is a good move by the government," passenger Deepak Kumar, who took the Delhi subway to work, told Agence France-Presse .
Britain, one of the worst-hit countries at the start of the pandemic, is also battling another spike. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said"educational institutions" would be closed and gatherings limited from Monday. In Spain, the government is trying to restart schools even as it records the highest number of new infections on the European continent.
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