⁍ Total deaths rose to 100,842, the health ministry said.
⁍ The tally of infections climbed to 6.47 million after a daily increase in cases of 79,476.
⁍ India now has the highest rate of daily increase in infections in the world.
– India is now only the third country in the world to see more than 100,000 deaths from a virus that has no known cure. The country’s death toll from the________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating. Total deaths rose to 100,842, the health ministry said, while the tally of infections climbed to 6.47 million after a daily increase in cases of 79,476. India now has the highest rate of daily increase in infections in the world. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, faced with a collapsing economy after imposing a tough lockdown to try to stem the spread of the virus in late March, is pushing ahead with a full opening of the country. Cinemas were allowed to re-open at half capacity this week and authorities can decide to re-open schools from the middle of this month. Heading into winter and the holiday season, including the Hindu festival of Diwali next month, the world’s second most populous country could see a jump in cases, health experts said. “We have seen some recent slowdown of the virus curve, but this may be a local peak, there may be another coming,” University of Michigan epidemiology professor Bhramar Mukherjee tells Reuters. “It will continue like a slow burning coil, that is my hope, and we have to play the long game to stop it from being a wildfire.”
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-cases/indias-coronavirus-death-toll-passes-100000-with-no-sign-of-an-end-idUSKBN26O03C