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India sees more local coronavirus lockdowns as cases near 800,000

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Reuters
10 July, 2020, 08:00 pm
Last modified: 10 July, 2020, 08:04 pm

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India sees more local coronavirus lockdowns as cases near 800,000

The new cases pushed India’s tally to nearly 800,000 cases, the world’s third-biggest outbreak, behind only the United States and Brazil in confirmed infections

Reuters
10 July, 2020, 08:00 pm
Last modified: 10 July, 2020, 08:04 pm
FILE PHOTO: A health worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) collects a sample using a swab from a woman at a local health centre to conduct tests for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), amid the spread of the disease, in New Delhi, India July 8, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File photo
FILE PHOTO: A health worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) collects a sample using a swab from a woman at a local health centre to conduct tests for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), amid the spread of the disease, in New Delhi, India July 8, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File photo

India reported a record 26,506 new coronavirus cases on Friday as authorities re-imposed lockdowns in its most populous state and in an industrial hub, home to automakers, drug factories and brewers.

The new cases pushed India's tally to nearly 800,000 cases, the world's third-biggest outbreak, behind only the United States and Brazil in confirmed infections.

There have been more than 21,000 deaths in India since the first case was detected there in January, federal health ministry data showed on Friday.

The capital, New Delhi, along with Maharashtra, home to the financial capital of Mumbai, and the southern state of Tamil Nadu account for about 60 percent of its cases.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, anxious to jump-start an economy crippled by the epidemic and put millions of people back to work, in early June eased an initial lockdown of the 1.3 billion population imposed in March.

But rising new flare-ups of the virus has been forcing some major industrial towns and states to impose localised restrictions.

A nine-day curfew was imposed in Aurangabad, an industrial town in Maharashtra, to contain a spike in infections that has affected operations of automakers such as Bajaj Auto.

"Employees could not go to work today due to the curfew," said Thengade Bajirao, president of the Bajaj Auto Workers' Union.

With an annual production capacity of more than 3.3 million motorbikes and other vehicles, the Waluj plant in Aurangabad accounts for more than 50 percent of Bajaj's manufacturing volume in India.

ŠKODA AUTO Volkswagen India Pvt. Ltd., small auto-part makers, pharmaceutical companies such as Ajanta Pharma have production units in Aurangabad, along with beer makers such as Carlsberg and Heineken.

India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, will lock down for two days from late on Friday as cases there surged past 32,000, the state government said in a statement.

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