Watch | As Crisis Deepens, COVID-19 Taskforce Calls for Nationwide Lockdown

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Uploaded: 2021-05-04T20:00:03+05:30
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Description: On Saturday, India's daily spike outdid 50 countries' put together.

On Saturday, India's daily spike outdid 50 countries' put together.

Mukul Singh Chauhan

On Saturday, India's daily spike outdid 50 countries' put together.

watch as crisis deepens covid 19 taskforce calls for nationwide lockdown

In this episode of The Wire's COVID-19 bulletin, we bring you disconcerting figures which spell the extent of the crisis.

On Saturday, 3.91 lakh people were found COVID-19 positive in the world's 50 most-infected countries, while 3,92,459 patients were found positive in India.

This means that India's 24-hour number outdid 50 countries' put together.

This article went live on May fourth, two thousand twenty one, at zero minutes past eight in the evening.

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