India reopens shopping malls, hotels and restaurants, a day after record surge in coronavirus cases

India is allowing shopping centres, restaurants, hotels and places of worship to reopen Monday after a 10-week nationwide lockdown likely slowed infections, but did not stop it from surging past Italy and Spain to become the fifth hardest-hit nation in the coronavirus pandemic.Nearly 10,000 new coronavirus cases were reported in India on Sunday, its biggest daily spike since the outbreak began, a sign that the second-most populated country in the world after China could be reopening too soon…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3087934/india-reopens-shopping-malls-hotels-and-restaurants