India reported a new rise of nearly 10,000 coronavirus infections today, with a total caseload of 276,583, the fifth highest in the world. The Health Ministry confirmed 9,985 new cases and 274 deaths in the last 24 hours. The spike comes as the government reopened restaurants, shopping malls and places of worship in most of India after a more than 2-month-old lockdown. India has so far tested more than 4.9 million people with a daily capacity crossing 140,000. There has also been a surge in infections in rural India following the return of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who lost their jobs during the lockdown.-AP

Source: The Standard June 10, 2020 10:15 UTC