India reported more than 4,000 deaths due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) for the second straight day on Sunday. The country battling the world's worst outbreak of the deadly virus witnessed 403,738 new infections in the previous 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry dashboard. The new cases took the active caseload of the country to over 3.7 million (3,736,648) and death toll to 242,362. The continued surge in infections led several state governments to extend their lockdown-like measures to break the chain of transmission. Spain celebrated as the state of national emergency ended at midnight due to the decline in the cases.

Source: Hindustan Times May 10, 2021 02:23 UTC