India on Saturday broke a new record for the daily number of deaths from Covid-19 as the government struggles to try to provide oxygen to hospitals overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of new cases.
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The queues of Covid patients and their worried relatives are stretching out in front of hospitals in the main cities of the country where nearly a million new cases have been identified in three days.
In the last 24 hours, 2,624 deaths linked to the disease have been recorded, a new record which brings the total number of officially recorded deaths since the start of the pandemic to nearly 190,000 in this country of 1.3 billion inhabitants .
More than 340,000 new cases have also been identified in the past 24 hours, bringing the total of people with the coronavirus to 16.5 million in the country, placing it second after the United States, the most affected country. of the planet.
But experts believe the numbers could actually be higher, and attribute the new wave to a "
double mutation
" of the virus and mass events, like the Hindu religious festival Khumb Mela which brought together millions of pilgrims.
