Coronavirus news live: India ‘shaken by Covid storm’, Modi warns as cases set new global record Matt Mathers
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A “tsunami” of Covid-19 infections saw India set a new global record for the fourth consecutive day as positive patients suffocated from a lack of oxygen amid hospital shortages.
The crisis deepened on Saturday as health officials recorded a further 349,691 cases of the disease and 2,767 more deaths, with mass crematoriums and funeral pyres burning in the capital, New Delhi and vast swathes of the country.
India s total number of infections stands at nearly 17 million and deaths at 192,311, although experts fear the true figure is likely to be much higher and infections are yet to peak. In the last month alone, daily cases have gone up eight times and deaths by ten times.
For the fourth straight day, India on Sunday set a global daily record of new coronavirus infections, spurred by an insidious new variant that emerged here.
Funeral pyres burn at a makeshift crematorium in New Delhi
Credit: AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
India s crematoriums and burial grounds are being overwhelmed by the devastating new surge of infections tearing through the populous country with terrifying speed, depleting the supply of life-saving oxygen to critical levels and leaving patients to die while waiting in line to see doctors.
Governments around the world pledged support as, for the fourth straight day, India on Sunday set a global daily record for new infections. The surge is spurred by an insidious new variant, undermining the government s premature claims of victory over the pandemic.
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India’s crematoriums and burial grounds are being overwhelmed by the devastating new surge of infections tearing through the country with terrifying speed.