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The authorities of India's capital New Delhi have extended the lockdown in view of the massive increase in the number of corona cases.
The lockdown will remain in force for another week, New Delhi's Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal said in a video message on Sunday.
“The devastation caused by the corona virus continues, and there is no breathing space.” Nationwide, the number of new corona infections rose to a new high of almost 350,000 within 24 hours on Sunday.
India's health system, which has been underfunded for decades, threatens to collapse under the enormous increase in cases.
Numerous hospitals reported shortages of medical oxygen and drugs.
Long queues of sick people and their relatives formed in front of the clinics in the big cities.
Meanwhile, criticism of the central government in online networks grew louder.
On Sunday, Twitter confirmed that it had blocked dozens of messages that had dealt critically with the corona crisis at the request of the government due to legal concerns.
Some tweets therefore contained statements about the overburdened health system.
Since the content does not violate the rules of the platform, it was not removed from the service, but only no longer accessible to users in India.
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The federal government announced on Saturday that it would significantly restrict travel to India.
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) said that entries from the country to Germany would largely be stopped because of the virus mutation prevailing there and the rapidly increasing corona numbers.
In the past week alone, more than two million corona cases were registered in India - an increase of 58 percent compared to the previous week, according to a calculation by the AFP news agency, citing data from the health authorities.
The financial metropolis of Mumbai is also trying to curb the spread of the virus with nightly curfews and other restrictions.