India saw a grim global record of 401,993 daily Covid-19 cases on Saturday even as it struggled to conduct the biggest round of its vaccination drive despite a shortage of doses.
The new infections took the country’s caseload past 19 million. The total death toll stands at nearly 212,000 with Covid-19 claiming 3,523 lives in the past 24 hours, government data showed.
Hit by a second wave of the pandemic, India is the first country to cross 400,000 daily cases, after it reported 300,000 daily infections for nine straight days.
The virus surge has overwhelmed health care systems, with…
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