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India sets pandemic record with more than 400,000 new COVID cases

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A patient is assisted by others to get down from an ambulance at the district government hospital in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh state, India, Tuesday, Dec.8, 2020. Health officials and experts are still baffled by a mysterious illness that has left over 500 people hospitalized and one person dead in this southern Indian state.(AP)
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India has now become first country to register 400,000 new COVID-19 cases in a single day.

The World Health Organisation has warned that India's COVID-19 variant has now spread to at least 17 countries.


Guest: Ravi Gupta, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease

Producer:

RN Breakfast’s international editor Linda LoPresti

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