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COVID-19 lockdown empties Delhi streets amid deadly surge
In the capital New Delhi, which has overtaken Mumbai as the worst-hit Indian city, restaurants, malls, gyms and spas were shut for the weekend AFP/Aishwarya KUMAR
17 Apr 2021 05:44PM Share this content
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NEW DELHI: New Delhi led major cities across India into a weekend lockdown on Saturday (Apr 17) as the country confronts a fierce new coronavirus wave, with more than 230,000 fresh daily cases and families clamouring for drugs and hospital beds.
Hopes that South Asia might have beaten the pandemic have been dashed with India seeing over two million new cases this month alone and Bangladesh and Pakistan also imposing shutdowns.
‘Frightening’: Weekend shutdown in Delhi as COVID grips IndiaInternational 2021-04-17, by Editor Comments Off 0
New Delhi went into a weekend lockdown on Saturday as India faces a ferocious new coronavirus wave, with daily cases hitting another record increase of 234,692 nationwide and families clamouring for drugs and hospital beds.
The health ministry said the latest number is the eighth record high in the last nine days.
Total cases have gone past 14.5 million, second only to the United States which has reported more than 32 million infections.
India’s deaths from COVID-19 rose by 1,341 to reach a total of 175,649, the data showed.