India’s Covid-19 death count crosses 200,000
NEW DELHI: The total number of people who have lost their lives to Covid-19 in India crossed 200,000 on Wednesday, with the number of daily deaths in the country crossing the 3,000 mark for the first time as the country struggled to fight off a devastating second wave of infections that has sent the rate of daily deaths rising at one of the worstever recorded rates in the world.
On Wednesday, India reported 3,293 new fatalities, taking the total number of deaths in the country since the start of the pandemic to 201,187. The country also set a new record for daily infections, with 360,960 new cases, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 17,997,267, according to the Union health ministry data.
Meanwhile, active cases in the country continued to inch towards the 3 million mark – as
NEW DELHI: In the midst of Covid-19 pandemic sweeping across the country and steps being taken to fight the outbreak on a war footing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday reviewed the Indian Air Force’s efforts towards Covid relief and stressed on the need to increase the speed, scale and safety of operations in transporting oxygen tankers
on Wednesday, there are 2,978,709 such cases in the country, the highest-ever recorded since the start of the outbreak in March last year.
India has thus far been one of the better performing nations in terms of case fatality rate (CFR) – the proportion of confirmed and other essential material to fight the disease.
Briefing the PM, IAF chief RKS Bhadauria said IAF has ordered 24x7 readiness of its entire heavy-lift fleet and substantial numbers of its medium-lift fleet to operate in a hub and spoke model to swiftly meet all Covid-related tasking across the country and overseas, the PMO said in a statement.
cases that result in deaths. Of all confirmed cases in the country, 1.1% have resulted in deaths – the second-highest (after Turkey’s CFR of 0.8%) among the world’s 10 worst-hit nations. On average, nearly twice as many (2.1%) of all confirmed Covid-19 cases have