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Reports from India say coronavirus infections have passed 1.5 million and deaths neared 35,000.
However, according to the report, test results in the city of Mumbai have cast further doubt on official data in the world’s second-most populous nation.
Even as the number of cases soar and more areas impose lockdowns, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this week, India was in a better position than other countries and winning international praise.
India’s Federal Health Ministry website – which no longer includes total infections as the government puts more emphasis on recoveries, – on Wednesday, reported almost 50,000 new infections and 768 more deaths.
The South Asian nation, home to some of the world’s most crowded cities and where healthcare spending per capita is among the world’s lowest, passed one million cases only 12 days earlier.
But many experts say India is not testing enough people, and that many coronavirus-linked deaths are not being recorded.
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