India situation a devastating reminder of what this virus can do: WHO.
With the raging second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic wreaking havoc in India, the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated on Friday that he’s very involved concerning the fast-growing caseloads within the nation.
“The situation in India is a devastating reminder of what the virus can do,” Ghebreyesus stated throughout a digital briefing in Geneva.
The situation within the nation appears to be slipping out of fingers with every passing day, amid acute scarcity of oxygen beds and key emergency medication like Remdesivir.
India reported yet one more grim milestone of highest quantity of every day new Covid-19 instances on Friday. A complete of 3,32,730 Covid instances had been recorded within the final 24 hours.
The nation additionally registered over 2,000 every day deaths for the third consecutive day with the best spike in single-day deaths at 2,263 on Friday, taking the cumulative dying toll in India to 1,86,920 to date.
On Thursday, India had reported 3,14,835 Covid-19 new instances and a couple of,104 deaths.
Delhi recorded its highest ever fatalities at 306 on Thursday, apart from logging greater than 26,000 new instances.
Since April 15, India has continued to report over 2 lakh new Covid instances on a every day foundation.
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