As the United States crossed a sombre landmark of 100,000 coronavirus cases, India registered record numbers Thursday while Russia continued to swiftly ease restrictions in sync with the Kremlin’s political plans despite a continuing high pace of infection.
The once-unthinkable death toll in the U.S. means that more Americans have died from the virus than were killed in the Vietnam and Korean wars combined.
India, home to more than 1.3 billion people, reported more than 6,500 new infections Thursday as cases continued to rapidly rise.
The surge comes as the nation’s two-month-old lockdown is set to end Sunday. South Korea on Thursday reported its biggest jump in coronavirus cases in more than 50 days, a setback that could erase some of the