India’s daily Covid-19 cases nudged upwards again with fresh infections crossing 89,000 on Saturday, the highest in a week. The daily tally of cases this week has so far stayed well below the numbers recorded last week, pointing to the possibility that the infection was past its peak, but the pandemic continues to surge in several states.
The Covid-19 global death toll could double to 2 million before a successful coronavirus vaccine is widely used and could be even higher without concerted action to curb the pandemic, the World Health Organization said. “Unless we do it all, (2 million deaths) … is not only imaginable, but sadly very likely,” Mike Ryan, head of the UN agency’s emergencies program.
