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India’s massive COVID surge puzzles scientists

The virus is spreading faster than ever before in India despite previous high infection rates in megacities, which should have conferred some protection.
  1. Smriti Mallapaty
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The pandemic is sweeping through India at a pace that has staggered scientists. Daily case numbers have exploded since early March: the government reported 273,810 new infections nationally on 18 April. High numbers in India have also helped drive global cases to a daily high of 854,855 in the past week, almost breaking a record set in January.

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Nature 592, 667-668 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01059-y

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  1. Murhekar, M. V. et al. Preprint at SSRN https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3797589 (2021).

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