India has new all-time high for coronavirus cases: 380,000 infections in last 24 hours

India on Friday set a new record in daily coronavirus infection figures with more than 380,000 in the past 24 hours, while the number of deaths has seen a slight decrease with almost 3,500 deaths.

Specifically, the country has reported 386,452 new infections in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to more than 18.7 million cases since the start of the pandemic, making India the second worst-hit country in absolute terms only behind the United States.

However, the number of deaths from covid-19 fell slightly to 3,498, after reaching a historic high of more than 3,600 deaths in one day yesterday, according to the daily report released by the Indian Ministry of Health.

India is at the global epicenter of a pandemic that is progressing by leaps and bounds: in the past seven days, the average number of daily infections exceeded 357,000, while the average number of deaths exceeded, for the first time, the threshold of 3000.

In this direction, the total number of active cases increased 3.6% from last week, while the positivity rate rose to 20.9%, from just a month ago the figure was lower than 6%.

The World Health Organization (WHO) considers the pandemic to be under control in a country if the positivity rate is below the 5% threshold.

Despite the fact that during the first wave of the pandemic, India’s recovery rate was one of the highest in the worldWith 97% of cases detected, it is now 82.1%.

The covid is hitting New Delhi with particular virulence, which with 24,235 new infections on the last day, reported 395 deaths, the highest death rate it has seen so far.

For its part, In the region of Maharashtra, the region hardest hit by the pandemic, cases continue to rise, with a total of 66,159, while the number of deaths edged down to 771., after yesterday exceeded a thousand deaths.

In the midst of the crisis, the capital of this region, Bombay, announced last night the end of its vaccination campaign for three days due to the lack of doses.

While, international aid aims to alleviate the oxygen and drug crisis with daily supplies from more than 40 countries.

The United States on Wednesday announced shipments of more than $ 100 million in medical supplies to deal with the pandemic, with the first of those shipments arriving in India this morning.

“The first of several shipments of Covid-19 emergency aid from the United States has arrived in India! Building on more than 70 years of cooperation, the United States supports India as we fight the pandemic together, ”the US Embassy in New Delhi announced on Twitter, alongside images of the shipment. .

U.S. officials sent oxygen cylinders and regulators, rapid diagnostic equipment, N95 masks and pulse oximeters in this first shipment, they detailed.

Pending the start tomorrow of a new phase of vaccination of the entire adult population of the country, the vaccination rate is lower than expected: Some 152 million doses have been administered to date, 2.2 million in the past 24 hours.

(With information from EFE)

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