This is reported by ANI News with reference to data from the country's Ministry of Health.

During the day in India, 251 patients with coronavirus died, for the entire time of the pandemic - 160 692. Another 11 231 650 patients were cured.

As noted by TASS, this increase is the largest in India since October 23, when 67,549 cases of COVID-19 were detected.

Earlier, the Russian Direct Investment Fund reached an agreement with the Indian pharmaceutical company Stelis Biopharma Pvt.

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on the production of 200 million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine.