⁍ India will reopen underground train networks and allow sports and religious events in a limited manner from next month.

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⁍ The move is part of the government’s efforts to revive the economy, even as coronavirus infections soar.

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⁍ India reported 76,472 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, slightly lower than the numbers seen in the last couple of days.

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– The death toll from India’s current coronavirus outbreak rose by 1,021 to 62,550 over the past two days, according to the country’s health ministry, making it the world’s worst outbreak of the disease. The outbreak, which has made millions of Indians sick, has also boomeranged back to haunt the country, with new cases hitting 76,472 over the past two days, slightly lower than the previous couple of days, but extending a run that has made the country’s outbreak currently the world’s worst, reports Reuters. The government, which has declared the outbreak the world’s biggest, announced Saturday that it will reopen the country’s underground train network and allow social, academic, sports, and religious events, with a maximum of 100 people allowed per event. Schools and colleges will remain closed until the end of the month. India has reported a total of 3.46 million coronavirus cases, behind the United States and Brazil in terms of total caseload. But it has reported higher single-day case rises than both those countries for almost two weeks. India’s COVID-19 death toll rose by 1,021 to 62,550, data from the federal health ministry showed. The western Indian state of Maharashtra, home to India’s financial capital Mumbai, recorded 331 deaths, the steepest single-day increase among all states over the past two days. On Friday, lawmaker H. Vasanthakumar from the country’s main opposition Congress party became the latest high profile figure to die from COVID-19.