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Global report: India Covid-19 cases pass 500,000 as Texas revives lockdown
US reports highest daily new infections as EU says it may exclude US from list of ‘safe countries’; Brazil records nearly 47,000 new cases
India passed half a million coronavirus infections as experts advised the government to prioritise reducing mortality over containing the spread of Covid-19, while in the US surging infections prompted two of the biggest states to bring back coronavirus controls.
Texas became the first state to revive lockdown measures, as new daily infections surged to nearly 6,000 and a senior official warned that hospitals risked being overwhelmed in the near future. “We opened too quickly,” Lina Hidalgo, judge for Harris county which includes Houston, said at a press conference on Friday.