India overtakes US daily COVID-19 death numbers
The United States has submitted to India, the country with the highest single-day death numbers, a dark statistic of the global pandemic outbreak.
While daily U.S. infections, hospitalizations, and deaths slide, India’s Health Ministry reported 4,529 deaths Wednesday as the coronavirus spreads beyond cities into the vast countryside, where health systems are weaker. The number is considered an undercount by most health experts.
According to the data from Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. gave out the previous data of daily deaths at 4,475 on January 12. But struggles with near-record cases of infections and a rising death count have India reeling. Hospitals and crematoriums are overflowing. Dozens of dead bodies are found floating daily in the Ganges River as it flows through poor, rural states.
The U.S., in the meantime, has eased the mask rules and other limitations in recent days. While the Department of Homeland Security extended restrictions on nonessential travel at land borders with Canada and Mexico through June 21. The restrictions were supposed to expire on Friday.
