Corona deaths exceed 400,000 cases in India

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India today, Friday, exceeded 400,000 deaths from the Corona virus, half of them over the past few months, in a second wave that has overwhelmed the health care system.

India has recorded 30.45 million infections since the outbreak of the pandemic last year, and has become the second most affected country in the world after the United States, which has recorded 33 million infections so far.

The Indian Ministry of Health data showed today, Friday,  that 853 new deaths from the Corona virus were recorded in the past 24 hours, bringing the number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 400,000.

Hospitals ran out of beds and life-saving oxygen during the second wave in April and May and people died in parking lots outside hospitals and in their homes.

Infections have fallen steadily since they peaked in May, but government officials and experts have warned that a third wave is looming as the country gradually reopens and a new local strain of the virus called "Delta Plus" emerges.

 

Source: Reuters