India Reports More Than 259,000 New COVID Cases

India’s health ministry reported 259,591 new COVID-19 cases Friday in the previous 24 hours. The South Asian nation also reported more than 4,000 deaths.

The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center says India has 26 million of the world’s 165.5 million cases. Only the United States has more cases, with 33 million. Argentina starts a strict lockdown, beginning Saturday and ending on May 31. “We are seeing the highest numbers of cases and deaths. We must take this critical situation seriously and not naturalize so much tragedy,” President Alberto Fernández said Thursday in a televised speech.  Johns Hopkins reports that Argentina has 3.4 million COVID cases.