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India’s coronavirus death toll becomes the world’s fourth largest

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novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, topping the U.K. with a total of 47,033 fatalities. Now India is only behind the U.S., Brazil and Mexico in the overall number of deaths.

Its total number of confirmed cases, almost 2.4 million, is the third largest in the world.The mounting number of lives lost in India comes as the country’s outbreak has become one of the fastest growing in the world.

India has been reporting about 60,000 or more new infections a day, higher than both the U.S. and Brazil, the two biggest outbreaks in absolute terms.The epicenter of the disease is shifting from India’s globally connected cities like Mumbai and New Delhi to the country’s vast hinterland, where most of the population lives and medical infrastructure is.

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