Published on: Friday, April 16, 2021 By: AFP Text Size: Bodies of patients who lost their lives to the coronavirus kept on funeral pyres during a mass cremation at a crematorium in Surat. NEW DELHI: India’s daily coronavirus caseload has doubled in 10 days, with a record 200,000 new infections logged Thursday as authorities grapple with shortages of vaccines, treatments and hospital beds. Having let its guard down with mass religious festivals, political rallies and crowds at cricket matches, India is experiencing a vicious second wave, recording almost two million fresh infections this month alone. This week, it overtook Brazil to become the country with the second-highest number of cases worldwide, after the United States.