India now has the grim designation of having recorded least 400,000 COVID infections three times in one month. The Washington Post reports the nation announced 414,188 new cases on Friday—a global record. CNBC looks at the data another way: In the past seven days, India has recorded more than 2.7 million cases and almost 26,000 deaths. That's an average of at least 153 people dying every hour. The AP says that not even half of the country's federal states currently have coronavirus restrictions in place, and that has more and more people clamoring for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to put a tough national lockdown in place. The country's GDP shrank 23% in Q2 of last year due to the country's two-month-long lockdown, which has economic considerations factoring heavily into current moves. More: