India PM under pressure to impose national lockdown
Al Jazeera, 06 May 2021
Pressure is mounting on India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impose a national lockdown.
A quarter of all COVID-19 deaths in the world last week were in India, as were almost half the new cases.
The official count of infections since the start of the pandemic is now surpassing 20 million.
Al Jazeera's Elizabeth Puranam reports from New Delhi, India.
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A quarter of all COVID-19 deaths in the world last week were in India, as were almost half the new cases.
The official count of infections since the start of the pandemic is now surpassing 20 million.
Al Jazeera's Elizabeth Puranam reports from New Delhi, India.
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