Coronavirus live news: India deaths pass 200,000; Poland announces plan to lift lockdown
India hits another global record; Polish PM announces lifting of lockdown from next week
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The World Health Organization said in its weekly epidemiological update that India accounted for 38% of the 5.7 million cases reported worldwide to it last week.
Early modelling showed that the B.1.617 variant of the virus detected in India had a higher growth rate than other variants in the country, suggesting increased transmissibility, it said.
French president Emmanuel Macron will on Friday set out how Covid-19 restrictions will progressively be relaxed in the country, prime minister Jean Castex said on Wednesday.
“The epidemic situation continues to improve at a regular pace. Virus circulation remains high but is on a real downward trend even though its impact on hospitalisation is limited notably on the number of people in intensive care units,” Castex told reporters after a meeting of the French cabinet.
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