India got on a sad podium this Monday.
The country has crossed the threshold of 300,000 deaths from the coronavirus, becoming the third country in the world to reach this figure, behind the United States and Brazil.
Above all, the pandemic continues to rage in this vast country of 1.3 billion inhabitants.
According to the Ministry of Health, the total number of deaths stands at 303,720, including 50,000 in just under two weeks, and the cumulative number of contaminations has exceeded 26.7 million. In recent weeks, the country has regularly recorded a record daily number of contaminations and deaths. In the past 24 hours, India has recorded 4,454 deaths from Covid-19, the second highest daily death toll since the record of 4,529 deaths reached on Wednesday.
Many experts believe that the real figures are undoubtedly largely underestimated, especially as the epidemic has spread beyond the big cities, in rural areas where hospitals are scarce and where registers are poor. required.
Across the country, the devastating wave of Covid-19 has engulfed hospitals, resulting in a shortage of oxygen and essential medicines.
Crematoriums and cemeteries were also overwhelmed.
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