Exceeded 893,000 cases within 24 hours

Record a daily record number of "Corona" injuries in the world

Police personnel monitor adherence to precautionary measures in India.

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Yesterday, an AFP census showed that a daily record number of new cases of the new Corona virus (Covid-19) was recorded in the world, which reached more than 893 thousand cases within 24 hours, mainly due to the widespread outbreak of Corona virus in India.

The previous daily record number was 819,000 injuries, announced on January 8th.

More than a third of the infections were recorded in India, which announced yesterday, that 346,786 new infections were recorded, which is also a record number for one country since the outbreak of the epidemic.

Over the course of a week, more than 5.5 million injuries in the world were recorded, including about two million in India, and India recorded a record number of deaths amounting to 2,624 cases during the past 24 hours.

The epidemic has killed about 190,000 people in total in the country.

Experts believe that the actual numbers of Coronavirus infections in India may be much higher, and they attribute the new epidemic wave to a double mutation of the virus and mass gatherings such as the Kumbh Mela Hindu Festival, in which millions of people participated.

In New Delhi, which is subject to a closure that continues until tomorrow, hospitals suffering from severe shortages of oxygen and medicines have issued distress calls for the government to urgently provide them with oxygen for hundreds of patients on respirators.

The medical director of Sur Gangaram Hospital in New Delhi said: “25 patients have died in the last 24 hours, we no longer have enough oxygen, and a major crisis is likely.

"The lives of 60 other patients are at risk, and urgent intervention is needed."

The account of the "Max Healthcare" hospital chain, which is among the largest private hospitals in New Delhi, on the social networking site "Twitter" posted a distress call, and said that there was an oxygen supply for less than an hour at Max Smart and Max Saket Hospital.

After the death of 22 patients in hospital due to an oxygen failure last week, 13 others died the day before yesterday, in a hospital in the suburb of Bombay, the Indian economic capital.

Several countries closed their borders to India, and Germany yesterday classified it within the category of high risk countries in terms of injuries, and the United States recommended not to travel to it even for people who received the vaccine, and Canada suspended for 30 days flights coming from India and Pakistan.

The monitoring of the "Indian" mutated version of the virus in Belgium raises concern in Europe as well, as 21 Indian students who arrived in mid-April to Belgium through the Parisian Roissy Airport were confirmed with the mutated version and were placed in quarantine.

While the boom recorded this week in Asia is mainly related to the situation in India, Nepal has also witnessed a massive outbreak of the epidemic, with 1,400 new infections recorded daily.

Three months before the Olympics are due, Japan is also causing concern.

The state of emergency was imposed in Tokyo and three other regions from today until May 11, according to Prime Minister Yossiheide Suga.

The United States records the highest number of new infections after India, announcing 490,000 cases within a week, followed by Brazil (459,000), and then Turkey (404,000).

According to the "France Press" census, based on official figures, a total of 145 million 544 thousand and 646 injuries were recorded, while the epidemic killed three million and 73 thousand and 969 people in the world since the outbreak of the epidemic in China in December 2019, until yesterday.

• More than 5.5 million injuries in the world within a week, including about two million in India.

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