Indian data hints at runaway virus spread as daily deaths hit record By MANAS MISHRA and TANVI MEHTA, Reuters
Published May 19, 2021 6:06pm
Health workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry wood to prepare a funeral pyre for COVID-19 victims during a mass cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, on April 26, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi BENGALURU Nearly two-thirds of people tested in India have shown exposure to the novel coronavirus, a chain of private laboratories said on Wednesday, indicating a runaway spread of the virus as the daily death toll rose to a record 4,529. India reported 267,334 new daily infections on Wednesday, taking its tally to 25.5 million, with a death toll of 283,248, health ministry data showed.
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Lilaben Gautambhai Modi, 80, wearing an oxygen mask, sits inside an ambulance as she waits to enter a COVID-19 hospital for treatment, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Ahmedabad, India, May 5, 2021.
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Nearly two-thirds of people tested in India have shown exposure to Covid-19, a chain of private laboratories said on Wednesday (May 19), indicating a runaway spread of the virus as the daily death toll rose to a record 4,529.
India reported 267,334 new daily infections on Wednesday, taking its tally to 25.5 million, the world s second highest after the United States, with a death toll of 283,248, health ministry data showed.
India: Data suggests runaway Covid infections
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The country reported 267,334 new daily infections yesterday
Nearly two-thirds of people tested in India have shown exposure to the coronavirus, a chain of private laboratories said on Wednesday, indicating a runaway spread of the virus as the daily death toll rose to a record 4,529.
India reported 267,334 new daily infections yesterday, taking its tally to 25.5 million, with a death toll of 283,248, health ministry data showed.
For months, nowhere in the world has been hit harder than India by the pandemic, as a new variant discovered there fuelled a surge of up to more than 400,000 new infections a day.
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - Nearly two-thirds of people tested in India have shown exposure to COVID-19, a chain of private laboratories said on Wednesday, indicating a runaway spread of the virus as the daily death toll rose to a record 4,529.
FILE PHOTO: Men wearing protective suits place a white cloth over the body their relative, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), before his cremation on the banks of the river Ganges at Garhmukteshwar in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, May 6, 2021. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
India reported 267,334 new daily infections on Wednesday, taking its tally to 25.5 million, the world’s second highest after the United States, with a death toll of 283,248, health ministry data showed.