At least 2,812 people died which pushed the total death toll to over 195,000 media reports suggest that the official death rate is likely undercounted.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi s government has faced criticism for allowing large crowds to gather for religious festivals and election rallies in various parts of the country this year. Prior to the second wave, India had on average around 10,000 new cases daily.
But so far in April alone, the South Asian nation has reported more than 5 million new cases, sending the country s health care system to the brink.
Hospitals have run out of beds and are turning away even critically ill patients. There is a severe oxygen supply shortage, partly due to uneven distribution across states. That has led to the deaths of many COVID-19 patients as the government scrambles to send supplies to the worst-hit states by road, rail and air.
Nearly 353,000 fresh infections in new daily record India reported 352,991 fresh coronavirus infections on Monday, taking the cumulative caseload to about 17.3 million, according to central health ministry data. The country saw 2,812 deaths due to the pandemic, taking the death toll to about 195,000. The active caseload is at 2.8 million, while the total recoveries have surged to 14.3 million. As many as 141 million shots have been administered since the nationwide inoculation programme kicked off on January 16. Of these, nearly 1 million were given on Sunday. Read more here
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Battling the second COVID-19 wave
To help India fight the pandemic, Democracy People Foundation has started an initiative called Mission Oxygen to help hospitals across the country get immediate access to oxygen concentrators.
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India finds itself in the middle of the deadly second COVID-19 wave, recording over 3 lakh daily new infections. This has put the entire healthcare system under immense stress, leading to an acute shortage of oxygen.
Led by a group of founders, the initiative has a target to raise Rs 5 crore to procure oxygen concentrators for 14 hospitals, as well as the state governments of Maharashtra and Delhi.
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