Demonstrators in protective suits and masks lie on a road during a protest demanding to stop election and campaign rallies in the eastern state of West Bengal, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease , near the office of the Election Commission in Kolkata, India, Apr 7, 2021. NEW DELHI: India reported a record 115,736 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday , a 13-fold increase in just over two months, raising pressure on the government to expand its vaccination campaign.
India's health minister said the complaints, mostly from states not ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party, were attempts to cover up their failures and spread panic. The western state, Delhi, Punjab and Karnataka have in recent days imposed new curbs, including night curfews. A picture taken with a drone shows people carrying the body of a man who died due to the coronavirus disease , for the burial at a graveyard in New Delhi, India, on Apr 7, 2021.
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