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New Delhi (dpa) - In India, more than 100,000 new corona infections were recorded for the first time in one day.
That comes from figures from the Indian Ministry of Health.
The richest state of Maharastra with the financial metropolis of Mumbai is particularly hard hit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned of an alarming rise in cases over the weekend.
Nevertheless, many people are living again as if there was no longer a pandemic.
Several states have major election rallies ahead of general elections.
Hundreds of thousands of Indians flock to the holy river Ganges for the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage festival - often without masks, as photos taken on site show.
Virus mutations could also contribute to the increase.
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At the beginning of the year there were sometimes fewer than 10,000 cases recorded in one day, at the previous high level last summer it was sometimes just under 100,000 per day.
India's vaccination campaign is currently still well behind the government's goal of vaccinating 300 million of the more than 1.3 billion people in the country by summer.
79 million doses have been given since vaccination started in January.
India is also considered the world's pharmacy.
The country produces a lot of vaccine for export.
But in view of the rapidly increasing number of cases in the country, this has now been restricted.
This also affects the UN initiative Covax, which is supposed to supply poorer countries with vaccination doses.
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