India’s trajectory is moving toward the worst-hit country, the United States, which has over 8.8 million cases.
Life in India is edging back to pre-virus levels with shops, businesses, subway trains and movie theaters reopening and the country’s third-largest state of Bihar with a population of about 122 million people holding elections.
India saw a steep rise in cases in July and added more than 2 million in August and another 3 million in September.
According to the Health Ministry, more than 7.3 million Indians have recovered from COVID-19.
India, with a population of 1.4 billion, aims to provide a coronavirus vaccine to 250 million people by July 2021.