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New Delhi readies vast quarantine centre as coronavirus cases mount
NEW DELHI : Authorities in New Delhi worked to convert a spiritual centre into a huge quarantine facility on Thursday as coronavirus cases in the national capital overtook the financial hub Mumbai for the first time.Delhi now has 70,390 coronavirus cases, with more than 40,000 detected in the last two weeks.That is more than Mumbai's 69,528, though the city, long considered one of India's biggest coronavirus hot spots, has seen a higher rate of deaths.Nationally, a record 16,922 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours, federal data released on Thursday showed, taking total cases in the country to nearly half a million with nearly 15,000 deaths.That is behind only the United States, Brazil and Russia, and five times that of China, that