Day after record virus cases, India reports highest single-day death toll at 3,689
02 May 2021 India s new coronavirus death toll hits a record at 3,689. Gulf Today Report
More emergency medical aid from foreign donors to alleviate a dire oxygen shortage arrived in India on Sunday, as Covid-19 deaths in the South Asian nation rose to a new record.
India s new coronavirus cases dipped marginally on Sunday but deaths due to the infection jumped by a record 3,689, with one more state going into lockdown as the nation s creaky healthcare system is unable to cope with a massive caseload, according to Reuters.
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New Delhi: In sheer numbers, it is the worst surge since the pandemic began â and it is still gathering speed.
After a devastating week of soaring infections, India reported more than 400,000 new cases on Saturday, a global record, before dipping slightly to 392,488 on Sunday. Experts believe numbers will climb higher again in the coming days, an unimaginable burden for a health system already under siege with hospitals issuing pleas for oxygen.
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Updated at 2:50 p.m. ET on 2021-05-02
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s party swept the state elections on Sunday, routing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, which many blame for the horrific nationwide surge in COVID-19 cases.
Modi s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came a distant second in state legislature polls, a result that could have long-term national repercussions for the party, analysts said. Still, the party managed to widely increase its share of seats in the state assembly.
For Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) party, this was a third consecutive win in state elections. However, Banerjee lost Nandigram, the seat she was contesting from.
Dozens of Covid-19 patients dying on the streets gasping for oxygen. Hundreds of wailing, desperate folks searching for hospital beds to access treatment. Continuous, thick plumes of smoke from funeral pyres filling the city air.
Since mid-April, the heart-rending scenes beamed from the Indian capital New Delhi around the globe have been nothing short of apocalyptical. The situation is equally bad in other parts of northern India, with harrowing tales of entire blocks of ICU patients dying off as oxygen supplies abruptly shut off.
India’s second wave of Covid-19 has completely collapsed a fragile and under-resourced health system across large swathes of the country. By the last week of April, daily infections in India set a new world record by crossing the 400,000 mark. The daily number of deaths also touched 3,645, the highest number of fatalities in India in a single day since the start of the pandemic.
India suffers 3,689 Covid deaths in record day of fatalities as hospitals and crematoriums overwhelmed
Updated: 2 May 2021, 13:45
INDIA suffered 3,689 Covid deaths today - the highest number it has recorded in a single day.
The country is battling a “tsunami” of coronavirus infections, with the crisis overwhelming hospitals and crematoriums where bodies are being burned en masse.
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Authorities reported 392,488 new cases in the previous 24 hours to push total cases to 19.56 million.
So far, the virus has killed 215,542 people although scientists and funeral directors believe the real number is much higher in a country with nearly 1.4 billion people.
India has reported more than 300,000 daily cases for more than 10 days straight. Many families have been left on their own to scramble for medicines and oxygen.