India on Thursday reported 314,835 new Covid-19 infections, the highest daily increase in cases worldwide since the pandemic began.
The country also recorded its highest number of new deaths in Covid-19 with 2,104 deaths.
The clear figures come as health care and other essential services in India near collapse amid a second coronavirus wave tearing through the country at a devastating speed.
The Union Territory of Delhi on Wednesday received less than half the oxygen needed to treat Covid-19 patients, with 200-250 tonnes of oxygen at a requirement of 700 tonnes, the Delhi Government’s lawyer said in the High Court on Wednesday. said.
According to a petition from the Bajaj Medical and Research Center, which runs a chain of private hospitals, five of its hospitals in Delhi have between two and 18 hours of oxygen supply left.
While the court heard the petition, two of the five private hospitals referred to in the petition received the oxygen supply, the court said.
According to Thursday morning, Delhi has 29 vacant ICU beds, according to government data.
According to India, the Indian Ministry of Health has now recorded 15,930,965 cases. The total death toll now stands at 184,657.
Some contexts: India’s population is almost four times that of the United States, and its daily cases still fall behind the US if it is adjusted for population size (in cases per million people). But India’s outbreak is undoubtedly the largest in world numbers at the moment – almost 28% of all new cases worldwide in the past week come from India, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.