On April 19, local time, the Ministry of Health of India notified that there were 273,810 new confirmed cases of new crown in the country, and the total number of confirmed cases exceeded 15 million.
There were 1619 deaths in a single day, with a total of nearly 179,000.
On the same day, both confirmed cases and deaths in a single day set records.
Due to the large number of patients and the shortage of medical resources, a hospital in New Delhi even allowed two patients to share a bed at the same time.
The medical director of Loknayake Hospital said: Initially we had 54 critically ill beds, and now we have increased to more than 300, we are already overloaded.
India is now diagnosed with one out of every six people tested. The severe epidemic has severely inadequate hospital beds and oxygen equipment.
The Ministry of Health of the country announced that it will convert some wards in hospitals originally reserved for employees of government departments or public enterprises into wards for receiving patients with new coronary disease.
(Producing Li Jiali)
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]