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(Photo : Getty Images/Ritesh Shukla) ALLAHABAD, INDIA - MAY 06: A worker helps cremate the bodies of Covid-19 victims on the banks of the Ganges river May 06, 2021 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. India broke a fresh record on Thursday with over 412,000 new cases of Covid-19 as the total number of those infected according to Health Ministry data neared 20 million. The real figure could be up to ten times higher, many health experts say, due to a lack of widespread testing or reporting, and only patients who succumbed in hospitals being counted. Hospitals have begun turning away people suffering from Covid-19, having run out of space for the crushing number of people seeking help.
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May 12, 2021
NEW DELHI: India’s coronavirus crisis again aggravated on Tuesday with record 4,200 deaths in one day, Johns Hopkins University data shows.
India’s daily coronavirus cases rose by 348,501. India’s total coronavirus infections are now at 23.34 million, while total fatalities rose to 254,225.
India leads the world in the daily average number of new deaths reported, accounting for one in every three deaths reported worldwide each day, according to a Reuters tally.
Eleven people died late on Monday in a government hospital in Tirupati, a city in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, due to a delay in the arrival of a tanker carrying oxygen, a government official said.
COVID deaths in India have risen by 4,205 records to exceed 250,000 marks Coronavirus pandemic News
As a result of COVID-19, the record of 24 deaths has risen in India in the last 24 hours, exceeding a total of 250,000 deaths.
The number of deaths caused by coronaviruses rose by 4,205, while the number of coronavirus cases per day was 348,421, compared to 23 million cases in India, according to data from the Ministry of Health on Wednesday.
Many experts believe that the actual number is much higher, and actual deaths and infections can be five to ten times higher.
There may be early signs of a flattening curve in COVID-19 infection in India, but the decline in the number of new infections is likely to be slow, said India’s chief virologist Shahid Jameel.