Coronavirus live news: India reports global one-day record of over 90,000 cases
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After confirming a world record 90,632 cases in 24 hours, India has overtaken Brazil to become the second-worst-affected country worldwide in terms of number of cases, Johns Hopkins University figures confirm.
With 4,204,613 known infections, India is second only to the United States, which has 6,276,365 confirmed cases.
In pandemic times, public health takes precedence over the wellbeing of the planet, as Germany’s Greens have had to learn the hard way. With Covid-19 shoring up electoral sympathies around a crisis-seasoned Angela Merkel, the buoyant upstarts in opposition have lost much of the momentum they had built up over the last 12 months.
And yet, paradoxically, the environmental party’s chances of entering government in 2021 have never looked greater.
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