The Latest: India sets record of 386,000 daily virus cases
NEW DELHI India has set another global record with 386,452 daily coronavirus cases.
The Health Ministry on Friday also reported 3,498 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 208,330. Experts believe both figures are an undercount, but it’s unclear by how much.
India’s pandemic response has been marred by insufficient data. An online appeal signed by over 350 scientists Friday afternoon asks the government to release data about the sequencing of virus variants, testing, recovered patients and how people were responding to vaccines.
The appeal says the “granular” data on testing was inaccessible to non-government experts and some government experts too.
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A cargo plane arrives with a shipment of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines at the FedEx hub in Toronto, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Cole Burston
Spectators follow the match between United States Shelby Rogers and Ashleigh Barty during the Mutua Madrid Open tennis tournament in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, April 29, 2021. The white banners covering the seats read Do not sit here. Keep social distance . Bernat Armangue
Government workers wearing a protective suit disinfect a COVID-19 testing site to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Quezon city, Philippines on Thursday, April 29, 2021. The Philippines is extending an already monthlong lockdown by two weeks as the country s worst coronavirus infection spike starts to ease but remains alarming.
The Latest: Pfizer-BioNTech seek vaccine OK for children
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1of17So-called flexbags containing the frozen raw material from Biontech/Pfizer for the production of the Comirnaty vaccine are stored in a clean room at Allergopharma s production facilities in Reinbek, Germany, Friday, April 30, 2021. Federal Health Minister Spahn visited the plant in Reinbeck near Hamburg on Friday for the symbolic start of production of the vaccine here. (Christian Charisius/dpa via AP)Christian Charisius/APShow MoreShow Less
2of17FILE - In this March 30, 2021 file photo, commuters wearing protective face masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ride in a crowded public bus, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Public health experts say that restrictions on activity and social distancing can help ease pressure on hospitals overloaded intensive care units, but that the only long-term solution is mass vaccination in a country of 210 million people that is bigger