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28 April, 2021, 5:10 pm
A shipment of vital medical supplies from the United Kingdom arrives in New Delhi, India April 27, 2021 in this still image taken from a video. ANI/REUTERS TV via REUTERS
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Vital medical supplies began to reach India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, and a surge in infections pushed the death toll close to 200,000.
A shipment from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in the capital New Delhi, though a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain had no surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses to spare.
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India s coronavirus death toll has passed 200,000 with more than 3,000 fatalities reported in 24 hours for the first time, official data showed.
A total of 201,187 people have now died, 3,293 of them in the past day, according to health ministry data, although many experts suspect that the true toll is higher.
India has now reported 18 million infections, an increase of 360,000 in 24 hours, which is a new world record. This month alone the country has added almost six million new cases.
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Bodies of COVID-19 victims lay burning on Tuesday in funeral pyres cramming New Delhi s sidewalks and car parks amid an explosion of new cases, as foreign aid began arriving.
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India s coronavirus death toll has passed 200,000 with more than 3,000 fatalities reported in 24 hours for the first time, official data showed.
A total of 201,187 people have now died, 3,293 of them in the past day, according to health ministry data, although many experts suspect that the true toll is higher.
India has now reported 18 million infections, an increase of 360,000 in 24 hours, which is a new world record. This month alone the country has added almost six million new cases.
READ MORE
Bodies of COVID-19 victims lay burning on Tuesday in funeral pyres cramming New Delhi s sidewalks and car parks amid an explosion of new cases, as foreign aid began arriving.