India’s COVID-19 Daily Cases Stay Near Record, Another State Imposes Lockdown

Family members wearing protective gear offer prayers next to the pyre of a victim who died of COVID-19 at an open air crematorium set up for the coronavirus victims inside a defunct granite quarry on the outskirts of Bangalore, India, on May 1, 2021. Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images

NEW DELHI—India’s new coronavirus cases dipped marginally on Sunday but deaths from COVID-19 jumped by a record 3,689, with one more state going into lockdown as the nation’s healthcare system is unable to cope with the massive caseload.

Authorities reported 392,488 new cases in the previous 24 hours, pushing total cases to 19.56 million. So far, the virus has killed 215,542 people. India reported a record 401,993 new coronavirus cases on Saturday.