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Coronavirus latest: India deaths near 100,000; Indonesia plans travel corridor with Singapore

  • Malaysia reported 287 new cases on Friday while India has more than 6.3 million Covid-19 cases, with 99,773 deaths
  • Indonesia is planning a travel corridor with Singapore. There will be special booths for travellers entering through Jakarta airport and Batam island

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India’s Covid-19 fatalities are closing on 100,000 with another 1,095 deaths reported in the past 24 hours. The update by the health ministry on Friday raised the country’s death toll to 99,773.
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Its reported deaths are low for a nation with nearly 1.4 billion people and more than 6.3 million cases of coronavirus infection, but experts say it may not be counting many deaths.

The ministry also reported 81,484 new cases of infection on Friday. Total cases jumped from 1 million in mid-July to more than 6 million in less than two and a half months.

New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru are the main urban centres of the infections, accounting for one in every seven confirmed cases and one in every five deaths in the country.

The South Asian nation, which is second only to the US in terms of total cases, has a scope for higher infections with a large chunk of the population still unexposed to the virus, a survey showed on Tuesday.

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Malaysia cases surge

Malaysia reported 287 new coronavirus cases on Friday, according to the health ministry, the highest daily increase since the country started tracking the spread of the pandemic.
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