India recorded 9,985 cases in one day with274 deaths, as the country is lifting the lockdown, the Indian Health Ministry reported Wednesday.

This comes as authorities are reopening restaurants, shopping malls, and religious places in most of its states after a more than two-month-old lockdown.
“The government has already partially restored train services and domestic flights and allowed shops and manufacturing to reopen,” the report added.
Subways, hotels, schools, and colleges, however, remain shuttered nationwide.
India has recorded 276,583 positive cases, the fifth highest in the world, with some 7,745 deaths.