India posts record COVID-19 cases, 13-fold jump over two months

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India posts record COVID-19 cases, 13-fold jump over two months New Delhi, India India’s second wave of coronavirus infections continued to swell as it reported a record 115,736 new cases on Wednesday, a 13-fold increase in just over two months and raising pressure on the government to expand its vaccination campaign. The federal government has asked states to decide on local curbs to control the spread of the virus, but has so far refused to impose any national lockdown after the last one in 2020 devastated its economy. The total number of cases since the first recorded infection in India just over a year ago now stands at 12.8 million, making it the third worst hit country after the United States and Brazil. Deaths rose by 630 - the most in four days - to 166,177, according to data from the health ministry. Ominously, the daily increase has topped 100,000 twice this week. The only other country to post such numbers has been the United States. Daily infections have also passed the peak of the epidemic’s first wave, seen in September.

India’s second wave of coronavirus infections continued to swell as it reported a record 115,736 new cases on Wednesday, a 13-fold increase in just over two months and raising pressure on the government to expand its vaccination campaign.

The federal government has asked states to decide on local curbs to control the spread of the virus, but has so far refused to impose any national lockdown after the last one in 2020 devastated its economy.

The total number of cases since the first recorded infection in India just over a year ago now stands at 12.8 million, making it the third worst hit country after the United States and Brazil.

Deaths rose by 630 – the most in four days – to 166,177, according to data from the health ministry.

Ominously, the daily increase has topped 100,000 twice this week. The only other country to post such numbers has been the United States.

Daily infections have also passed the peak of the epidemic’s first wave, seen in September. 

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