By Tanvi Mehta NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India accounted for nearly half the coronavirus cases reported worldwide last week, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, as COVID-19 deaths in the south Asian nation rose by a record 3,780 during the past 24 hours. In a weekly report, the WHO said India accounted for 46% of global cases and a quarter of global deaths reported in the past week. Daily infections rose by 382,315 on Wednesday, health ministry data showed. The number has been in excess of 300,000 every day for the past two weeks. Hospitals are scrabbling for beds and oxygen as they desperately battle a second deadly surge in infections, while morgues and crematoriums struggle to deal with a seemingly unstoppable flow of bodies. Many people have died in ambulances and car parks waiting for a bed or oxygen. Prime Minister Narendra Modi s government has been widely criticised for not acting sooner to suppress the second wave, as religious festivals and political rallies drew tens
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Chennai Super Kings’ batting coach Mike Hussey, who has also tested positive for Covid-19, will stay back in the country to finish his quarantine. Mike Hussey | Sportzpics / IPL
Cricket Australia’s interim chief executive Nick Hockley on Wednesday said that the Board of Control for Cricket in India is working to arrange a charter flight for the Australian contingent, before heading back home because of a travel ban on the Covid-19-hit India.
Later PTI reported that the contingent will be flying out to Maldives.
India accounted for nearly half of the COVID-19 cases reported worldwide last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, as the country’s coronavirus deaths rise by a record 3,780 during the last 24 hours.
The WHO said in its weekly epidemiological report on Wednesday that India accounted for 46 percent of global cases and 25 percent of global deaths reported in the past week.
Daily infections in the country rose by 382,315 on Wednesday, health ministry data showed, the 14th straight day of more than 300,000 cases.
India’s second deadly surge of COVID-19 has seen hospitals run out of beds and oxygen and left morgues and crematoriums overflowing. Many people have died in ambulances and car parks waiting for a bed or oxygen.