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Multiple funeral pyres of those patients who died of covid-19 disease are seen burning at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for mass cremation of coronavirus victims, in New Delhi, India.
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Relatives of covid-19 patients wait for refill of their oxygen cylinders in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, April 21, 2021.
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A metro train runs behind as a man wearing mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks through a bridge in Kochi, Kerala state, India.
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Multiple funeral pyres of those patients who died of covid-19 disease are seen burning at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for mass cremation of coronavirus victims, in New Delhi, India.
Low on beds and oxygen, India adds global high 314,000 new coronavirus cases
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India reported a global record of more than 314,000 new infections on 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. India has nearly 1.4 billion people.
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Bodies piling up at crematoriums and burial grounds across India are sparking concerns that the death toll from a ferocious new Covid-19 wave may be much higher than official records. Video: Reuters
A worker wearing personal protection equipment loads wood onto a cart at a crematorium on the outskirts of New Delhi on Friday. Bodies piling up at crematoriums and burial grounds across India are sparking concerns that the death toll from a ferocious new Covid-19 wave may be much higher than official records. Photograph: Bloomberg
India has reported a global record of more than 314,000 new infections as a coronavirus surge sends more people into a fragile healthcare system critically short of hospital beds and oxygen.
The 314,835 infections added in the past 24 hours raised India’s total past 15.9 million cases since the pandemic began.
It is the second-highest total in the world, next to the United States. India has a population of nearly 1.4 billion people.
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Fatalities rose by 2,104 in the past 24 hours, raising India’s overall death toll to 184,657, the health ministry said.
A large number of hospitals are reporting acute shortages of beds and medicine and are running on dangerously low levels of oxygen.
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