This was reported by the NDTV channel with reference to the data of the Ministry of Health of India.
During the day, 617 people died from coronavirus in the country, more than 427 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.
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.