MUMBAI, April 12 — India today overtook Brazil as the country with the second-highest number of coronavirus infections, as it reported a new daily record of more than 168,000 cases. The vast nation of 1.3 billion people has been reporting a rapid increase in new infections in recent weeks, with...
A police officer points at people in line at a railway station amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease in Mumbai, India April 11, 2021. — Reuters picMUMBAI, April 12 — India today overtook Brazil as the country with the second-highest number of coronavirus infections, as it reported a new daily record of more than 168,000 cases.
“The whole country has been complacent — we allowed social, religious and political congregations,” Rajib Dasgupta, a health professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, told AFP.The country has recorded more than 873,000 cases in the last seven days — an increase of 70 per cent compared to the previous week, according to data compiled by AFP.
The spike in India, after daily rises in cases fell below 9,000 in early February, has seen many badly affected states and territories impose restrictions on movement and activities. “The solution is for everyone to stay home for two months and end this once and for all. But the public doesn’t listen,” said Rohit, 28, a waiter at a popular Mumbai restaurant who moved to the financial hub for work from the northern state of Punjab.
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