WELLINGTON – The number of global coronavirus cases continued to surge Tuesday in many large countries that have been lifting lockdowns, including the U.S., even as new infections stabilized or dropped in parts of Western Europe.India has been recording about 15,000 new infections each day, and some states Tuesday were considering fresh lockdown measures to try to halt the spread of the virus in the nation of more than 1.3 billion.
The government earlier lifted a nationwide lockdown in a bid to restart the ailing economy, which has shed millions of jobs.Hospitals in Pakistan are turning away patients, but with the economy there teetering, the government remains determined to reopen the country.New cases have also been rising steeply in.