This was reported by the NDTV channel, citing data from the Indian Ministry of Health.
During the day, 422 people died from coronavirus in the country, more than 425 thousand patients with confirmed COVID-19 died in India.
Earlier, the head of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Randip Guleria, said that the country's authorities intend to start vaccination of children against coronavirus by September this year.
Vitaly Zverev, a microbiologist, scientific director of the Mechnikov Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in an interview with URA.RU, emphasized the importance of achieving population immunity from coronavirus in the world.