India reported a record 9,887 new coronavirus cases in one day on Saturday and overtook Italy as the world’s sixth-biggest outbreak, two days before the relaxing of a lockdown with the reopening of malls, restaurants and places of worship.
A man carries his son as he stands with others in a queue at a Railway reservation ticket counter after a few restrictions were lifted during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease , in New Delhi, India, June 1, 2020.
However, India’s toll of deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, is 6,642, small compared with those other countries. “We can survive and sustain the gains without … opening up religious places for sometime,” Babu said on Twitter.The World Health Organization said late on Friday India’s lockdown had helped it dampen down transmission of the disease, but there was a risk the cases could rise again.
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