Over the past 24 hours, more than 400,000 new cases of the disease have been registered in India, and 3,523 people have died in the last 24 hours, the Federal Ministry of Health officially reports. Another 16 people died in a fire in the intensive care unit at Baruch Hospital, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, according to the Press Trust of India.
According to official figures, 401,993 new cases of SARS-CoV-2 have been confirmed in the last 24 hours, increasing the total number of COVID-19 cases from February to 7.7 million. The second wave of the pandemic plunged the country into chaoscausing an unprecedented health crisis. In total, during the period of the pandemic, the country recorded 211,853 deaths and more than 19.1 million cases of infection. Experts are confident that the real losses in India are much higher.
In addition to the huge number of cases and related problems, fatal incidents in hospitals are added. Another fire broke out in a four-story hospital in Baruch, where at that time there were 50 patients. A local police spokesman reports 18 dead.
On April 23, a fire in Mumbai killed 13 patients with coronavirus, a few days later – 22 people in a fire in a hospital in Maharashtra. In the same state, when the supply of oxygen was stopped due to its leak, 29 patients with COVID-19 died.
The Indian authorities are begging for support, many countries in Europe and the United States have responded to the call for help. Already the second special aircraft of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Of Russia, with medical attention for India, which has become the epicenter of the pandemic in recent days, landed at New Delhi airport yesterday. According to the Secretary General of the Greek Ministry of Citizens’ Protection, the government Greece immediately responds to a request from the Indian authorities and through the European Civil Protection Mechanism “is ready to send 90 oxygen cylinders with a total capacity of 440 liters, as well as medical supplies (masks, gloves and other self-protection equipment).”
Meanwhile, the country is actively continuing vaccination against the coronavirus. According to the Ministry of Health, 145,271,186 doses of the vaccine have already been used in the country. According to the resource Ourworldindata.org, India has the third highest vaccination rate in the world after the United States and China. The country’s population is about 1.4 billion people.
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