COVID-19: Lockdown empties Delhi streets amid deadly surge COVID-19: Lockdown empties Delhi streets amid deadly surge AFP / Updated: Apr 17, 2021, 13:05 IST India into a weekend lockdown Saturday as the country confronts a fierce new coronavirus wave, with more than 230,000 fresh daily cases and families clamouring for drugs and hospital beds. Hopes that South Asia might have beaten the pandemic have been dashed with India seeing over two million new cases this month alone and Bangladesh and Pakistan also imposing shutdowns. India added another record 234,000 cases Saturday to pass 14.5 million overall and 1,341 deaths took its pandemic total to 175,649 deaths. A father-and-son pair of doctors from Kalyan succumbed to Covid within hours of each other even as the mother is serious in a hospital in Vasai. While it’s still unclear if they were vaccinated, both had been involved in Covid care for a year.