The capital has overtaken Mumbai as India’s worst hit city amid surge of cases and fears of ‘double mutant’ variant
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New Delhi has been placed under a weekend lockdown on the day India recorded another record daily increase Covid-19 cases amid a ferocious new wave of the pandemic driven by new variants.
The country racked up 234,692 Covid-19 infections in the 24 hours to Saturday morning, health ministry data showed, which was the eighth record daily increase in the last nine days.
