India's coronavirus cases jump on New Delhi's 3rd wave
India’s coronavirus outbreak rose by more than 50,000 cases amid a surging third wave of infections in the capital.
The Health Ministry also reported another 704 fatalities in the past 24 hours across the country, raising India's overall death toll to 124,315.
People wearing masks as a precaution against the coronavirus shop at a market upcoming Hindu festival Karwa Chauth in Jammu, India, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. Married Hindu women eat this traditionally prepared food in the wee hours of the morning and fast till dusk during the festival, praying for health and long life of their husbands. (AP Photo/Channi Anand) AP
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Nerves are frayed in New Delhi after it reported a record 6842 new cases in the past 24 hours.
Its Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, had admitted Wednesday that the city was going through a third wave of infections. It has more than 37,000 active cases.
Daily wage laborers wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus stand together as they wait for work at a wholesale market in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. The nation of 1.3 billion people is expected to become the pandemic's worst-hit country within weeks, surpassing the United States. AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi
The ministry has attributed the surge in New Delhi to the festival season and warned that the situation can worsen due to people crowding markets for festival shopping.
The surge comes as New Delhi appears to be heading for a cold wave, along with the fast-worsening air quality.
Relatives assist an Indian woman in personal protective equipment offer marigold garlands on the body of her husband who died of COVID-19 in Gauhati, India, AP Photo/Anupam Nath
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Health experts are concerned low temperatures and high pollution will worsen the virus outbreak.
With 8.3 million confirmed cases of coronavirus, India is the second worst-hit country behind the United States.
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