India posts Covid daily record as worldwide cases hit 150 million

  • Date: 30-Apr-2021
  • Source: National News Agency - Lebanon
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India posts Covid daily record as worldwide cases hit 150 million

NNA - India on Friday posted another global record for daily coronavirus infections, pushing worldwide cases past 150 million as a pandemic that has killed almost 3.2 million worldwide continues to wreak devastation.

The number of new daily cases has more than doubled since mid-February, an AFP tally showed, in an explosion in infections blamed in part on a new Covid-19 variant but also on failure to follow virus restrictions.

The countries with the highest total number of cases are the United States, India and Brazil, which recorded 3,001 Covid-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing its overall toll to 401,186.

The continent seeing the bulk of new daily cases is Asia, driven largely by a devastating wave in India which has overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums.

India recorded another 385,000 cases in the past 24 hours -- a new global record -- and almost 3,500 deaths, according