India on Monday recorded 103,558 new cases of Covid-19, which was its highest increase in infections to date in the pandemic.
The number of new daily cases in India has been steadily increasing since March 10, and the country also reported 741,830 active cases on Monday – the most since October 20.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting on Sunday to look into the Covid-19 situation.
“(He) has paid attention to avoiding deaths under all circumstances by upgrading health infrastructure, availability of oxygen, ventilators in addition to the required logistics, and to ensuring that clinical management protocols are followed in all hospitals and for home care,” he said. . statement from the prime minister’s office said.
Modi also ordered that a team of public health specialists be sent to the state of Maharashtra, which has contributed 57% of the coronavirus case load in the country over the past two weeks.
As of Monday, India had recorded 12,589,067 cases of coronavirus, the third highest in the world, including 165,101 related deaths and 11,682,136 recoveries. According to the Indian Ministry of Health, it also distributed 79 105 163 doses of vaccines.