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

Over the past 24 hours, 493 people have died from coronavirus in the country, more than 431 thousand patients with confirmed COVID-19 have died in India.

Previously, Vitaly Zverev, microbiologist, scientific director of the State Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums named after V.I.

Mechnikov, 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.