Indian data suggests runaway Covid infections as deaths hit daily record

Data from Thyrocare, a chain of private laboratories, shows that 63.5% of people tested positive for Covid antibodies on average over the last seven days, up from 45% a month ago

Nearly two-thirds of people tested in India have shown exposure to COVID-19, a chain of private laboratories said on Wednesday, indicating a runaway spread of the virus as the daily death toll rose to a record 4,529.
 

India reported 267,334 new daily infections on Wednesday, taking its tally to 25.5 million, the world's second highest after the United States, with a death toll of 283,248, health ministry data showed.
 

For months, nowhere has been hit harder than India by the pandemic, as a new variant discovered there fuelled a surge of up to more than 400,000 new infections a day.