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India's daily Covid-19 tally is world's highest as festival, rallies fan concern

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Hundreds of thousands of devout Indians are set to bathe in the Ganges river tomorrow, the third key day of a Hindu festival, even as peaks in daily coronavirus infections prompt government critics to demand the cancellation of huge events.

Since 2 April, India has reported the world's highest daily tallies of infections, reaching more than 100,000 in the last week, or many multiples of its figure earlier this year of fewer than 10,000.

Today's milestone of 161,736 fell just shy of a national record the previous day. Deaths rose by 879 to 171,058, while total nationwide infections stand at nearly 13.7 million.

The widely-read Hindustan Times newspaper called for an immediate halt to mass gatherings. "Governments have happily allowed mega

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