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By Neha Arora, Shilpa Jamkhandikar 6 Min Read (Adds comment from doctor at Delhi hospital) NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, April 29 (Reuters) - India’s total COVID-19 cases passed 18 million on Thursday after another world record number of daily infections, as gravediggers worked around the clock to bury victims and hundreds more were cremated in makeshift pyres in parks and parking lots. India reported 379,257 new infections and 3,645 new deaths on Thursday, health ministry data show for its highest numbe...

India infections top 18 million as gravediggers work round the clock By Alasdair Pal and Francis Mascarenhas Reuters NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) -Indias total COVID-19 cases passed 18 million on Thursday after another world record number of daily infections, as gravediggers worked around the clock to bury victims and hundreds more were cremated in makeshift pyres in parks and parking lots. India reported 379,257 new infections and 3,645 new deaths on Thursday, health ministry data showed, the hi...

Posted: Apr 29, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 29 Relatives of a COVID-19 patient who died mourn outside a government hospital in Ahmedabad, India, on Tuesday. Coronavirus cases in India are surging faster than anywhere else in the world, and many people are turning to social media to find medical supplies for loved ones.(Ajit Solanki/The Associated Press) The frantic calls for life-saving oxygen or the antiviral drug remdesivir come fast and furious on social media, as India grapples wi...

Advertisement New Delhi: India’s total COVID-19 cases have passed 18 million after another world record number of daily infections, as gravediggers work around the clock to bury victims and hundreds more are cremated in makeshift pyres in parks and parking lots. India reported 379,257 new infections and 3645 new deaths on Thursday, local time, health ministry data showed, the highest number of fatalities in a single day since the start of the pandemic. Municipal workers prepare to bury the bo...

  NEW DELHI/MUMBAI -- Indias total COVID-19 cases passed 18 million on Thursday after another world record number of daily infections, as gravediggers worked around the clock to bury victims and hundreds more were cremated in makeshift pyres in parks and parking lots. India reported 379,257 new infections and 3,645 new deaths on Thursday, health ministry data showed, the highest number of fatalities in a single day since the start of the pandemic. The worlds second most populous nation is ...

Amarjeet Kumar Singh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via G India has passed another daily world record on Thursday, passing 18 million Covid-19 cases. The country reported 379 257 new infections and 3 645 deaths on Thursday. Hospital beds that become available are immediately taken up. Indias total Covid-19 cases passed 18 million on Thursday after another world record number of daily infections, as gravediggers worked around the clock to bury victims and hundreds more were cremated in makeshift pyres ...

Indian American venture capitalist Vinod Khosla offered his financial support April 24 to hospitals in India who are struggling to secure oxygen supplies amid a deadly second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 2,000 people are dying each day throughout the country, bringing India’s death toll to nearly 200,000 overall. The double mutant B.1.617 variant — far more virulent and lethal — now accounts for more than 20 percent of new infections in India. The country is experienc...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said the wave of COVID-19 infections in India is the result of a “perfect storm” of mass gatherings, more contagious variants and low vaccination rates. India’s new coronavirus cases remained above 300,000 for a sixth consecutive day on Tuesday, while its armed forces have pledged urgent medical aid to help battle the staggering spike in infections overwhelming its hospitals and crematoriums. The WHO is providing critical equipment and supplies to I...

WHO says ‘perfect storm’ of conditions led to India COVID surge Al Jazeera English © A relative of a patient who died of COVID-19, mourns outside a government COVID-19 hospital in Ahmed... A relative of a patient who died of COVID-19, mourns outside a government COVID-19 hospital in Ahmedabad [Ajit Solanki/AP Photo] The World Health Organization (WHO) has said the wave of COVID-19 infections in India is the result of a “perfect storm” of mass gatherings, more contagio...

At least 45 Covid-19 patients have died in Delhi over two days after their hospitals fell short of oxygen, doctors said on Saturday amid a crisis they say has been precipitated by the epidemic’s explosive growth and poor government planning and preparedness. Twenty patients with severe Covid-19 had died at the Jaipur Golden Hospital in northwest Delhi, hospital authorities said on Saturday, a day after the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in central Delhi reported 25 deaths following a fall in oxygen p...