India's death toll from COVID-19 passed 20,000 on Tuesday, with its total number of cases now exceeding 700,000 — making it the third worst-affected country by the coronavirus, in terms of total infections.
The hardest-hit areas are still India's largest cities, New Delhi and Mumbai. Hospitals there are overcrowded, and makeshift medical wards have been hastily constructed in convention centers.
In March, India imposed one of the earliest, strictest lockdowns in the world, at a time when its total cases were relatively low, numbering in the hundreds. The lockdown may have slowed the virus's spread, but it also left at least 100 million people unemployed, some of them left starving. A nationwide lockdown was eased in early June to try to revive the economy. While schools remain closed, most businesses and public transit have since resumed, except for areas with high concentrations of COVID-19 cases. But individual state governments have been reimposing their own restrictions.
Even though India ranks third in terms of total coronavirus cases, it ranks eighth in terms of fatalities,
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