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By Dpa correspondents 
 NEW DELHI — India registered 9,971 new coronavirus cases in a fresh single-day record jump, passing Spain as the country fifth worst-hit by the pandemic, government data released Sunday showed.
 The spike comes as India allows the reopening of malls, restaurants, hotels and places of worship, with restrictions on large gatherings, from Monday.
 The total number of infections rose to 246,628, the health ministry said in its daily update. The cases have been rising sharply, by 8,000 or more, for several days now.
 The caseload crossed Spain with a tally of 241,310 and India was only behind the US, Brazil, Russia and Britain in terms of number of confirmed infections, according to Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
 India’s COVID-19 fatalities at 6,929, have been relatively low compared to countries like Italy, ranked seventh worst-hit, which has 33,846 COVID-19 deaths.
 Indian officials contend that the more than two month-long lockdown, the largest in the world, kept the mortality rates down. They also cite effective clinical management and less severe infections in India, which has a population that skews younger.
 However, experts warned India, the second-most populous country with 1.3 billion inhabitants, had yet to see the peak of the pandemic.
 India’s main cities, national capital New Delhi and the financial hub of Mumbai are the epicenters of the outbreak in India, accounting for 46,000 and 27,000 cases respectively.
 Many new cases were reported from rural areas after hundreds of thousands of daily-wage migrant workers returned to their villages, having found themselves without work during the lockdown.
 India has been easing the lockdown, allowing reopening of markets, offices and industrial activity and resuming domestic transport in an attempt to revive the economy.
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India sets another record single-day jump in virus cases, tops Spain