Subscribe for our daily curated newsletter to receive the latest exclusive Reuters coverage delivered to your inbox. India’s total COVID-19 cases passed 18 million on Thursday after another world record number of daily infections, as gravediggers worked around the clock to bury victims and hundreds more were cremated in makeshift pyres in parks and parking lots. Mumbai gravedigger works 24-hour shifts as India’s COVID-19 death toll soars A desperate search for oxygen in Delhi ends in grief As COVID-19 floods India’s hospitals, the better-off also scramble for care India foreign secretary says 40 countries to supply oxygen