India continues to experience record coronavirus count: over 3,600 people have died in past 24 hours

India on Sunday recorded a new record for the number of daily deaths from the coronavirus, more than 3,680, after yesterday the number of cases exceeded for the first time the barrier of 400,000 infections in one day.

With 3,689 new deaths from the coronavirus, India reported the highest number to date at the height of this crisis, making it the fourth country with the most deaths in absolute terms, 215,000, just behind the United States, Brazil and Mexico.

After surpassing 400,000 daily cases for the first time on Saturday, new infections declined slightly to 392,488, adding more than 19.5 million positive cases since the start of the pandemic, according to data from India’s Ministry of Health .

With this absolute record, India still does not see the end of a curve that has become accustomed to breaking records, leaving images of saturated crematoria and overflowing hospitals that have resulted in the sending of international aid from more than 40 countries.

In the last few hours, new shipments of medical supplies have arrived from Germany, Uzbekistan, the United States and Belgium, as India tries to cope with the worst time of this health crisis in the country.

A total of 9,000 Remdesivir antivirals arrived from the European Union, in addition to 120 ventilators, 28 tonnes of medical equipment, oxygen generators for medical centers, oxygen cylinders, concentrators and regulators, between other supplies.

The country has been operating at 99% capacity for more than 10 days and reports a severe oxygen crisis that has hit New Delhi with particular gravity.

The capital reported 25,219 new infections and 412 deaths in the past 24 hoursData which yesterday forced the head of government of New Delhi to extend the total confinement of its more than 20 million inhabitants for the third consecutive week.

Faced with this situation, India is focusing on its ambitious vaccination campaign for the entire adult population, entering a new phase on Saturday that includes citizens between 18 and 44 years old, some 500 million new beneficiaries.

However, the lack of sufficient doses reported by several regions led to yesterday’s data not showing an increase in the number of daily inoculations, maintaining the usual average of 1.8 million doses over the past 24 years. hours, bringing the January total to 157 million vaccines. .

Yesterday, more than 84,500 beneficiaries were in the 18-44 age group, who received their first dose of one of the vaccines available in India, AstraZeneca’s Covishield formula, made by the Serum Institute of the India (SII) , or Covaxin, from the Indian laboratory Bharat Biotech; Added to this yesterday is the arrival of the first shipment imported from Sputnik V.

So far, 28.6 million beneficiaries have received the two doses needed for a full vaccination, still far from the initial target of vaccinating 300 million people by July.

(With information from EFE)

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