India's COVID-19 cases, deaths continue to surge

Mounted police patrol on a vacant road in Hyderabad, India, on May 12, 2021, the first day of a 10-day lockdown here to curb the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. India's COVID-19 death toll crossed the 250,000-mark as the total number of cases surpassed 23 million on Wednesday, according to the federal health ministry. (Str/Xinhua)