India exceeds 18 million cases due to COVID-19 and more than 200 thousand deaths

The number of COVID infections continues to increase – 19 in India by exceeding the 18 million cases, which places this Asian nation in second place only below the United States.

Photo: PRAKASH SINGH / AFP / Getty Images

India remains at worrying levels due to the number of COVID infections – 19 by overcoming this Thursday the 18 million cases after beating a new record of infections, standing as the highest number registered in the world so far, after reaching almost the 379, infections, in addition to counting a new maximum with more than 3, 600 deaths in one day.

The Asian country notified 379, 257 new infections in the last 24 hours, which raises the total up to 18, 376, 421 and remains the second nation most affected by the pandemic only behind United States , reported the Indian Ministry of Health and Johns Hopkins University.

🇮🇳 | INDIA

Converts vehicles into ‘care rooms’ for COVID patients – 19 in India, due to the lack of spaces in hospitals.

From: @ Janosikgarciaz

pic.twitter.com/vsDIUbFEJc

– Coronavirus NEWS🇺🇳 (@CoronavirusNewv) April 29, 2021

In addition, the daily number of deaths grew to 3, 645, a new maximum in this second wave of the pandemic in the country, which with a total of 204, 832 deaths rank India as the fourth nation with the most deaths only behind the United States, Brazil and Mexico.

The dramatic increase in cases keeps India at the epicenter of the global pandemic, at concentrate almost the 29% of positive diagnoses for coronavirus that are registered daily in the world, according to the World Organization of the Health (WHO).

In India the COVID – 19 again broke records in the western region of Maharashtra, which in the last 25 hours exceeded for the first once the barrier of 1, 000 daily deaths and recorded a total of 63, 309 new cases.

For its part, New Delhi, one of the cities most affected by virulence of the pandemic, experienced a slight decrease in the death toll, which reported a total of 368 in a single day, while the number of infections remained on the rise, with 25, 1200 positive.

The rapid advance of the coronavirus in the Asian nation caused in a matter of weeks an oxygen crisis in hospitals to treat paci serious coronavirus entities that aroused the international commitment to send medical material.

🇮🇳⚰️ Mumbai Gravedigger Sayyed Munir Kamruddin works the 24 hours since India was overwhelmed by a second wave of COVID – 18 pic.twitter.com/ENUdqB2bKZ

– Reuters Latam (@ReutersLatam) April 29, 2021

In this sense, USA announced a few hours ago the shipment of a consignment with medical supplies worth more than 100 millions of dollars to help combat the increase in cases in the country.

“We are committed to using all the resources at our disposal, within our authority, to support India’s frontline healthcare workers,” stressed the Secretary of Defense of the United States, Lloyd Austin.

Mass vaccination is seen as the most effective resource to alleviate the pandemic. Since the country began the campaign in January, they have been administered, at a lower rate than expected, 150 million doses, 2.2 million of them in the last day.

With information from EFE.

Keep reading: What happened to the millions of doses against COVID – 19 of AstraZeneca that Mexico and Argentina promised to produce in Latin America