A health worker in personal protective equipment collects a sample using a swab from a person at a local health centre to test for Covid-19 in New Delhi, India August 7, 2020. — Reuters pic
The rate of spread in the world’s second-most populous country also appears to be increasing. India logged its first one million infections by July 17 and crossed the 1.5 million mark just 12 days after that.Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government imposed one of the world’s strictest lockdowns in late March.
Previously the main hotspots have been the teeming megacities of New Delhi and Mumbai, home to some of the world’s biggest slums. A study last week that tested people for coronavirus antibodies found 57 per cent in Mumbai’s slums have had the infection — far more than official data suggests.
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