India needs to take quick and decisive steps soon to stop an emerging second "peak" of COVID-19 infections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday.

"We will have to immediately stop the emerging second peak of coronavirus and for this, we will have to take quick and decisive steps, said Modi while interacting with state chief through video conferencing in New Delhi.

Daily deaths swelled by 188, the highest figure in two months, to stand at a total of 159,044.
Deaths swelled by 188, the highest figure in two months, to stand at 159,044.

India has the world's highest tally of infections after the United States and Brazil.

Nearly 62 per cent of infections in the past 24 hours and 46 per cent of the deaths were reported by the western state of Maharashtra, the country's worst affected.

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