It is reported by ANI News with reference to data from the country's Ministry of Health.
During the day in India, 291 patients with coronavirus died, for the entire time of the pandemic - 161,240. Another 11,295,023 patients were cured.
As noted by TASS, this increase is the largest in India since October 16, when 63,371 cases of COVID-19 were detected.
At the same time, the number of deaths recorded per day among patients with coronavirus also became the highest since December 30 last year, when 299 people died.