Officials believe everyone on board was killed when the Yeti Airlines passenger plane, flying from India to Nepal, went down suddenly on approach to landing.
The New Delhi High Court called a critical oxygen shortage a "national emergency" and one expert warned the situation may be even worse than the numbers make it look.
India Marks Global Record Rise In COVID-19 Cases For A Day: 314,000
New Delhi India reported a global record of more than 314,000 new infections Thursday as a grim coronavirus surge in the world s second-most populous country sends more and more sick people into a fragile health care system critically short of hospital beds and oxygen.
The 314,835 infections added in the past 24 hours raise India s total past 15.9 million cases since the pandemic began. It s the second-highest total in the world next to the United States, which has roughly double that with nearly 32 million, according to Johns Hopkins University. India has nearly 1.4 billion people.