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

Over the past 24 hours, 496 people have died from the coronavirus in the country, more than 436 thousand patients with confirmed COVID-19 have died in India.

Earlier, 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 to coronavirus in the world.