RAJEWADI/GUWAHATI : The quaint, sugarcane-growing village of Rajewadi in India's west did not have a single confirmed coronavirus case until mid-August.
Now one in every four people there is positive for the virus, with police blaming a local religious event for the spread.Such spurts in cases in small towns and villages, where mask wearing and social distancing have nearly vanished and community gatherings are back, explain why India's infections are now rising faster than anywhere else in the world and why the country is soon set to top 4 million cases.Based on current trends, India will overtake Brazil as the second-worst affected nation after the United States in days.The South Asian country reported 83,883 new infections on Thursday,.