India’s virus caseload tops 3 million as disease moves south

A health worker and relatives carry the body of a man who died due to COVID-19 to a crematorium in New Delhi, India, on August 17, 2020. (REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo)

A body of a woman who died from COVID-19 is lowered into the ground during her funeral at a graveyard in New Delhi, India, on August 17, 2020. (REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo)

Relatives carry a coffin with the body of a woman who died of COVID-19 infection during her funeral at a graveyard in New Delhi, India, on August 22, 2020. (REUTERS/Adnan Abidi)

NEW DELHI: India’s coronavirus caseload topped 3 million on Sunday, with the country leading the world in new infections as the disease marched through impoverished rural areas in the north and the wealthier but older populations of the south.
Health authorities reported 10,339 new cases and 912 deaths, bringing the total to 3,044,940.
Cases have leveled off in India’s two largest cities, with serological surveys showing widespread prevalence among the residents of the capital, New Delhi, and financial center Mumbai.
New hot spots continue to feed surges in cases in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states in India’s north, and in the southern states of Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.