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India, the 55,078 new cases reported on Friday take the national total to 1.64 million, even as the government further eases virus curbs in a bid to resuscitate the economy, while also trying to increase testing.
The death toll rose by 779 to 35,747, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on its website, adding that it aimed to raise the country’s testing capacity to 1 million per day in the medium term, from a record 600,000 on Friday.
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The federal government this week announced the reopening of yoga institutes and gymnasiums, and removed restrictions on the movement of people and goods.
Nine people have died in India from drinking alcohol-based hand sanitiser after liquor shops in their town were closed due to virus restrictions, police said on Friday.
The group lost consciousness after consuming a “high quantity” of hand sanitiser mixed with water or soda, Siddharth Kaushal, police superintendent for Kurichedu town in Andhra Pradesh state said.
They were rushed to hospital but declared dead on arrival, he said.
The group turned to hand sanitiser “as a substitute” for liquor after supplies were cut off when authorities ordered a lockdown of the town to combat the coronavirus, he added.
