India Records More Than 400,00 New COVID-19 Daily Cases
The government s principal scientific adviser, K. VijayRaghavan, warned that even after infection rates subside the country should be ready for a third wave.
Lilaben Gautambhai Modi, 80, wearing an oxygen mask, sits inside an ambulance as she waits to enter a COVID-19 hospital for treatment, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ahmedabad, India, May 5, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Amit Dave
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New Delhi: India reported on Thursday more than 400,000 coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths rose by a record 3,980.
The nation’s tally has surged past 21 million, boosted by the record 412,262 new cases. Its death toll now stands at 230,168, health ministry data show.
A top scientific adviser to the Indian government has warned the country would inevitably face further waves of the coronavirus pandemic, as almost 4,000 people die in the space of a day.
India’s principal scientific adviser K Vijay Raghavan on Wednesday warned that even after infection rates subside, the country should be ready for a third wave.
“Phase 3 is inevitable, given the high levels of circulating virus,” he told a news briefing.
“But it is not clear on what timescale this Phase 3 will occur… We should prepare for new waves.”
Relatives of a COVID-19 patient argue with a police officer to admit him to the emergency ward at Holy Family Hospital in New Delhi [Danish Siddiqui/Reuters]India on Thursday reported a record 412,262 new COVID-19 cases and 3,980 deaths, with infections in the world’s second-most populous nation surging past 21 million and a total death toll of 230,168, according to the health ministry’s data.
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A health worker inoculates a man with a dose of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in Colombo on Thursday.
Sri Lanka on Thursday became the latest of India’s neighbors to seal its borders with the South Asian giant as it battles a record coronavirus surge.
Bangladesh and Nepal have also banned flights and sought to close their borders with India, where a huge rise in numbers in the past three weeks has taken deaths past 230,000 and cases over 21 million.
All three countries are fighting their own pandemic surges, which Red Cross leaders have described as a “human catastrophe.”
Kirstie Allsopp has claimed vaccinating children against Covid-19 while millions of people across the world are at greater risk is the pinnacle of western overconsumption .
The Location, Location, Location host, 49, from London, made her case on Twitter, arguing the idea of not putting the most vulnerable people first is disgusting .
It comes after reports claimed children as young as 12 will get their coronavirus vaccines from September as the government tries to avoid a third wave. Core planning documents were leaked showing school kids will be given one dose when they go back to class after the summer.
This week Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), the largest union for secondary school heads, said education leaders would be willing to help facilitate a vaccine roll-out at schools around the country.