A health worker takes a break in between testing for Covid-19 at a centre in New Delhi, India (Manish Swarup/AP)India has registered 75,829 confirmed coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, a day after the death toll passed 100,000. India also has a low fatality rate of 1.56%, which is nearly half the global one. Health experts warn the move has the potential for the virus to spread during the forthcoming religious festival and winter season. Seventeen of the new cases were linked to international arrivals, mostly from other Asian countries such as the Philippines, India, and Bangladesh. The state, emerging from a major winter spike in coronavirus cases, relaxed lockdown regulations last weekend but still allowed only five people from up to two households to congregate outside.

Source: Irish Independent October 04, 2020 06:51 UTC