India about to overtake the US with highest covid-19 caseload globally

By Nilanjana Bhowmick

A woman wearing a mask passes by a coronavirus-related mural in Mumbai, India

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India is on track to overtake the US as the country with the highest number of coronavirus cases worldwide. With more than 5.56 million recorded cases, India set a new record with 97,859 daily cases on 16 September. It took just 11 days for the total number of cases so far to rise from 4 to 5 million, and it is likely to be just a matter of weeks before the country passes the US, which has some 6.85 million cases. …