With total cases of more than 4.65 million, India is the world's second worst affected country, trailing only the United States, which has more than 6.6 million cases. But the growth in infections in India is faster than anywhere else in the world, as cases surge through urban and rural areas. If the state, which is India's richest, were a country, it would rival Russia for the fourth highest number of coronavirus cases globally. "I am so disappointed with the pandemic situation in India," Bhramar Mukherjee, a professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Michigan, who has been tracking India's Covid situation closely, said on Twitter. "It is getting worse and worse each week but a large part of the nation seems to have made the choice to ignore this crisis," she said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 12, 2020 07:41 UTC