Hospital staff transport the body of a person who died of Covid-19 to a morgue in Mumbai on May 29.
On Friday, the health ministry said the number of cases had increased by 10,956 from the previous day, with new infections rife in the cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. The new cases took India’s total number of infections to 297,535, and it replaced Britain as the fourth worst-affected country, according to Reuters tallies.
“What is the point of visiting mosques at a time when the virus is spreading so fast,” said the cleric, Syed Ahmed Bukhari said, suggesting other mosques do the same.
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