April 28, 2021
Nepal, which borders India s northeast, had seen case numbers begin to fall in February, with newly identified cases hovering between 50 to 100 each day. But infections erupted in mid-April as India s second wave picked up speed and daily cases are now in the thousands. Courtesy file photo
NEW DELHI As India continues to grapple with an unrelenting second wave of COVID-19, some neighboring countries in South Asia are seeing their own surges in case numbers, prompting border closures and travel bans.
India is now reporting approximately 1 million new coronavirus cases every three days, with the daily death toll exceeding 3,293 on Wednesday, according to data from the Indian Ministry of Health.
As India s Covid crisis and variant spreads, Pakistan and Nepal go on high alert
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