As some countries are easing out of lockdown and reopening their borders, others are going for tougher measures and re-imposing lockdown in certain clusters with an alarming resurgence of Covid-19 cases.

The state of Tamil Nadu in India will impose a "complete" 12-day lockdown to bring down the number of Covid-19 cases which, on Monday, reached over 46,000.

But on Tuesday, Prime minister Narendra Modi said that "India is among nations with the lowest number of deaths due to Covid-19".

Intense #lockdown in Chennai, nearby towns from June 19, no Sunday break https://t.co/TZK8HD8eTO more than 100,000 cases, Maharashtra state, home to Mumbai, has the largest number of reported Covid-19 infections with more than 110,000 cases and over four thousand fatalities.

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But now the country is bracing for the monsoon and its deadly annual onslaught of mosquito-borne illnesses, to be faced by already overstretched public health workers.