Covid Surge: States of Crisis

 Cases of coronaviruses are rising swiftly in the ongoing second wave of Covid-19 with over one lakh new cases now being recorded in the country every day. At the time of writing this (7.4.2021), India added 1,15,736 new cases in the last 24 hours to its total tally of active cases, which is 8,43,473 (see graph: Covid-19 cases…). At this rate of resurgence of cases, India may soon overtake Brazil to reclaim its second place in the list of most-affected countries or possibly become the country with the highest number of cases surpassing the United States, currently the worst-hit country in terms of the number of cases.

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