India overtakes Italy's virus tally as lockdown easing looms

India has more than 236,000 total virus cases. FMTNews

A hairdresser in personal protective suit attends to a customer at a hair salon in New Delhi on June 5.

With its total number of cases rising to more than 236,000, India now has fewer infections than only the US, Brazil, Russia, Britain and Spain, according to a Reuters tally. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, anxious to jump-start an economy crippled by the epidemic and put millions of people back to work, is easing its lockdown of the 1.3 billion population imposed in March, which the government says helped avoid an exponential rise in cases.Giridhar R Babu, epidemiologist at the Public Health Foundation of India, in particular questioned the re-opening of religious places.

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