India's COVID-19 death toll 3rd highest in world at 300,000 amid slow vaccine drive
By Kelly Hayes
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NEW DELHI - India has surpassed 300,000 virus-related deaths, the nation with the third-highest death toll during the pandemic after the United States and Brazil, as the country faces a surge of infections impacting the poorer countryside.
India's health ministry on Monday reported 4,454 new deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing India’s total fatalities to 303,720. It also reported 222,315 new infections, which raised the overall total to nearly 27 million. Experts say both are almost certainly undercounted.