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Thousands of people gathered during rallies in all the four states, particularly in Bengal. (Reuters) NEW DELHI: India went past yet another grim milestone on Wednesday after reporting its highest-ever surge of 3.6 lakh new Covid cases and nearly 3,300 deaths. The surge had started somewhere around late-February to early-March when the average daily count went past the 15,000-mark after staying below it for over a month. The onset of the second wave also coincided with the announcement of the assembly election dates in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry. With campaigning...

With 323,144 new cases, India’s overall caseload now stands at 17.64 million.

Family members of a Covid-19 patient outside a government-run hospital, facing shortage in beds and medical oxygen, in Kolkata. (PTI) NEW DELHI: India on Thursday shattered the global record of most Covid infections recorded in a day after registering a massive spike of nearly 3.15 lakh fresh cases along with 2,102 deaths in the past 24 hours. The deluge of infections have led to a severe health crisis in the country with PM Modi saying recently that the second wave has hit India "like a storm". What has been particularly worrying during the ongoing Covid surge is the rapid pace at which In...

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The death toll reached 1,57,656 with 108 more fatalities, while a total of 18,327 new cases were registered in a day, it said.