This was reported by the NDTV channel with reference to the data of the Ministry of Health of India.

Over the past 24 hours, 490 people have died from the coronavirus in the country, a total of 429,669 patients with confirmed COVID-19 have died in India.

Earlier, Vitaly Zverev, 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.