COVID-19 cases and deaths have been rising at a worrisome pace since the middle of February with no downturn in sight, and with about a third of all pandemic cases and deaths reported in the last 3 months alone, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its weekly snapshot of the pandemic.India's cases soar as Brazil's show signs of slowingHot spots continue to vary by region, with the sharpest rises in the region that includes India, where daily cases today topped 300,000 for the first time.
Other hard hit areas include the Middle East and the Western Pacific area, though cases are rising in all of the WHO's regions except for Europe.The main drivers of recent surges are probably the emergence of more transmissible variants and