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On Sunday, India became the second country after the US to report 100,000 new cases in a single day. More than half of those were confirmed in Maharashtra, which has India's largest city Mumbai as its capital. The country’s daily infections have leapt about 12-fold since hitting a low in early February when authorities eased most restrictions and people largely stopped wearing masks and practising social distancing. Dr Sanjay Oak, who is the head of the Covid-19 task force in Maharashtra, says a general sense of complacency could be behind the rise but there are hopes the vaccine roll out will see numbers come down. Photo: People queue for a vaccine in Mumbai, Maharashtra, 5 April 2021 Credit: EPA