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India Reports Record Number of New COVID Infections

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   India's Health Ministry reported Sunday that it had recorded 90,632 new
   COVID-19 infections in the previous 24-hour period, setting a world
   record for a one-day tally of new cases.

   India has a total of 4,113,811 COVID cases, according to Johns Hopkins
   University, the third-highest total worldwide. Only Brazil and the
   United States have more infections, with 4,123,000 and 6,245,866
   respectively, Johns Hopkins said.

   The New York Times reports that it has seen a letter from Mark Lowcock,
   the United Nations undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs. The
   letter addressed to the Security Council says that the Democratic
   Republic of Congo, northeastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen are
   teetering on the brink of famines, as a result of a combination of
   factors "compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic" and that millions of
   lives are in danger. The Times said Saturday the letter to council
   members has not been made public.

   Boston's Northeastern University has expelled 11 students because they
   violated the school's coronavirus safety protocols. The students were
   found without masks and not observing social distancing in a room
   allocated for only two people. Media reports say Northeastern has also
   declined to return the students' tuition which is more than $35,000
   each.

   More than 410,000 Americans could die from COVID-19, the disease caused
   by the coronavirus, by January 1, according to the latest model by the
   University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

   The United States reported more than 188,500 deaths as of Saturday, and
   more than 6,200,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, according to
   Johns Hopkins data. If the IHME model, released Friday, is correct,
   that would mean an estimated 222,000 more deaths over the next 3½
   months.

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