India Sees Highest Number of Daily COVID-19 Deaths Since Pandemic Began
India s surge in infections has coincided with a dramatic drop in vaccinations due to supply and delivery problems.
Healthcare workers and relatives carry a woman from an ambulance for treatment at a COVID-19 care facility, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India, May 4, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Niharika Kulkarni
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India’s coronavirus deaths rose by a record 3,780 during the last 24 hours, a day after it became the second country to cross the grim milestone of 20 million infections after the United states.
Daily infections rose by 382,315 on Wednesday, health ministry data showed. Government modelling had pointed to a peak by Wednesday, a few days earlier than thought, since the virus has spread faster than expected.
India accounted for nearly half of Covid cases globally and one in four deaths over the last week with 120 dying of the disease every hour
India s Covid crisis is worsening as case and death figures soar, even as experts warn that both are under-counting the true toll by as much as ten times
Country accounted for almost half of global cases over the last seven days and one in four deaths, WHO figures show
In the last fortnight, at least 120 Indians have died from the disease ever hour
Doctors have warned it could be months until the situation improves, as Modi resists calls for a nationwide lockdown and vaccine drive stalls
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Relatives react to heat emitting from the multiple funeral pyres of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium in the outskirts of New Delhi on Apr 29, 2021. (File photo: AP/Amit Sharma)
05 May 2021 01:33PM (Updated:
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NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday (May 5) pledged billions of dollars to boost its flagging vaccine programme as the country s new COVID-19 cases rose by 382,315, the 14th straight day of more than 300,000 cases.
New Delhi, May 1
Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal said on Saturday that the second Oxygen Express with 120 MT of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) in 6 tankers will reach Delhi from Durgapur in next 24 hours. The first such train arrived in Delhi from Chhattisgarh carrying 70 MT LMO.
“Oxygen tanks are being loaded from Durgapur, West Bengal on Oxygen Express to provide LMO for patients in Delhi,” Goyal said in a tweet, while adding that this will be the first such train, which will carry the oxygen in containers provided by Singapore. These tankers were received at the container corporation terminal near Durgapur, he noted.
The Railways is looking to invest over USD 150 billion over the next five years, Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal said adding that it would help create one million additional jobs.