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Photos: India hits 10 million coronavirus cases as outbreak slows
India exceeded 10 million infections of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on December 18, as the pace of infections slows. After hitting a peak of nearly 98,000 cases in mid-September, daily infections have averaged around 30,000 this month, helping India widen its gap with the United States, the world's worst affected country with more than 17 million cases. The country expects to roll out vaccines soon and is considering emergency-use request for three shots, developed by Oxford/AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Bharat Biotech.
Updated on: Dec 19, 2020 5:59 PM IST
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A health care worker prepares to screen people for Covid-19 infection at Govandi in Mumbai on December 17. India on December 18 became the second country in the world to see its total number of Covid-19 infections surpass 10 million, with the development coming at a time when rates of new infection appear to have fallen sharply over recent weeks. (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)
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Shoppers gather at a market area in New Delhi on December 19. The only other country to have crossed this mark is the US, which did so on November 7, and which is currently in the grips of a strong third wave of the pandemic that has taken daily cases and deaths, as well as hospitalisations to record highs. (Jewel Samad / AFP)
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Police personnel ensuring face masks are worn correctly by people at Qaiserbagh bus station in Lucknow on December 17. In contrast, almost all of India’s indicators are exhibiting positive signs – the rate of new cases and deaths are the lowest in at least five months and have dropped over 70% from peak of the first wave, and the positivity rate is the lowest ever recorded, HT reported. (Dheeraj Dhawan / HT Photo)
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A health worker screens a shopper for Covid-19 at a makeshift testing booth in a market area in New Delhi on December 19. Total cases were 10.0 million, up just over 25,000 in the previous 24 hours, with 9.6 million recoveries and 145,136 deaths, according to the health ministry. In September, the country had been recording daily new cases of almost 100,000 and looked on track to surpass the United States as the worst-hit country. (Jewel Samad / AFP)
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A social worker dressed as Santa Claus distributes face masks to commuters as part of an awareness campaign against the Covid-19 at a traffic junction in Ahmedabad on December 18. The pandemic has accelerated in the US and appears to have lost momentum in India, despite the country being home to some of the most crowded cities on the planet. (Sam Panthaky / AFP)
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A boy along with his mother arrives at a Covid-19 testing centre in Chennai on December 19. The United States, with a population a quarter the size of India’s, has been reporting upwards of 200,000 new cases in recent weeks, 10 times as many as India, AFP reported. India’s fatality rate is also considerably lower -- less than half that of the US. Brazil has also reported more deaths at 185,000. (Arun Sankar / AFP)
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Municipal medical staff screening government employees for coronavirus infection at Churchgate in Mumbai on December 17. The viral disease that began in Wuhan, China, a year ago has infected at least 75 million people around the world and killed at least 1.7 million people. One in every eight people infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, is from India, but the country fares better in terms of deaths. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)
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Covid-19 test samples taken from travellers are seen kept on a table at a railway platform in Mumbai on December 19. India’s case fatality rate (CFR) — the proportion of infected people who have died from the disease — is 1.45%, better than the global average of 2.22. This has come along with improvement in test positivity rate, which is at its lowest ever. In the past week, 2.6% of all samples tested have come back positive for Covid-19 — the lowest since April. (Punit Paranjpe / AFP)
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