Weekly deaths up 19%; half the toll due to old fatalites https://ift.tt/2SudBVu

After two straight weeks of decline, Covid-19 fatalities reported in India registered a 19% rise in the week ending Sunday, mainly driven up by as many as 12,573 “backlog” deaths added to the toll during this period, the highest for any seven-day span so far.

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