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India has recorded a new world record for daily coronavirus cases as the hospital system struggles to cope.
Nearly one million infections have been reported there in three days, with 346,786 new cases overnight into Saturday.
Another 2,624 deaths, a new daily record, were reported in 24 hours.
Almost 190,000 coronavirus-related deaths have been confirmed in India since the pandemic began, in addition to 16.5 million cases.
People were dying on the pavement outside one of the biggest hospitals in the Indian capital, Delhi, as medics struggled to cope with the country s dwindling supplies of oxygen amid a massive second surge in coronavirus cases.