India passes 300,000 COVID-19 deaths: Wellbeing ministry
24 May, 2021
India said on Mon (May 24) it had passed more than 300,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, the 3rd country after the United States and Brazil going to figure as an enormous wave of attacks overwhelms the healthcare program.
The South Asian nation's toll now stands at 303,720 after adding 50,000 deaths in only under two weeks, as the full total number of infections rose above 26.7 million, health ministry data showed.
India has been striking record single-day rises in infections and fatalities found in latest weeks amid the brutal surge.
It reported 4,454 COVID-19 deaths during the past a day, the second-highest daily toll since reaching a record 4,529 in Wednesday.
Many pros believe the true number is much higher, particularly as the condition spreads beyond significant cities into rural areas where in fact the majority of the 1.3 billion people lives and where wellbeing facilities and record-keeping is poor.
The wave has overwhelmed not only hospitals with patients, and resulted in a severe shortage of oxygen and critical medications.
Harrowing images of extended queues intended for funerals and makeshift pyres have also emerged out of crematoriums and cemeteries.
Bodies of suspected COVID-19 victims have in the mean time been seen floating down the holy Ganges river or buried found in shallow graves.
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