India hits 2 million recorded cases of coronavirus, the third highest caseload in the world after the U.S. and Brazil.
Although life has cautiously begun to return to the streets of the capital, New Delhi, and financial hub Mumbai, which appear to have passed their peaks, authorities elsewhere in India were reimposing lockdowns after sharp spikes in cases. Including in Uttar Pradesh, a state of 220 million where infections in every district are weighing heavily on the fragile health system.
The health workers, known as Accredited Social Health Activists, or ASHA, which means"hope" in several Indian languages, have been deployed in villages on behalf of the Health Ministry.Manisha Verma, a spokesperson for the Health Ministry, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Migrant workers queue outside a railway station in Mumbai after the government eased a nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the coronavirus pandemic.India has launched two of the world's dozen and a half prospective vaccines into human trials, with vaccine-maker Zydus Cadila announcing it had completed phase 1 trials of its DNA-based vaccine on Thursday.regardless of whether its own attempts work.
The world's largest vaccine maker, the Serum Institute in the central Indian city of Pune, has ramped up capacity to manufacture as many as a billion doses in development by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford — where researchers are hoping to launch a vaccine for emergency use by October.
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