What are the global implications of India’s second COVID wave?

India witnessing worst phase of pandemic as WHO says highly infectious Indian variant of virus has spread to 17 nations.

India has reported 357,229 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours – the 13th straight day of more than 300,000 infections – taking its overall tally to more than 20 million. Deaths rose 3,449 for a toll of 222,408, health ministry data showed on Tuesday. However, medical experts say the real numbers across the country of 1.35 billion may be five to 10 times higher than the official tally. The steep climb in infections in the first week of April, when for the first time India surged past 100,000 cases, was indicative of an impending disaster.