India hits global record of 315,000 new daily cases as Covid wave worsens
by Rebecca Ratcliffe from Science | The Guardian on (#5GXDQ)
Hospitals pushed to brink after more than 1 million people infected in four days
India has registered a record-breaking single-day tally of new Covid cases as a severe shortages of beds and oxygen hit Delhi hospitals and migrant workers made an exodus from the capital.
Its total of 314,835 cases over the previous 24 hours is the highest number of infections recorded in a day in any country since the start of the pandemic.
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