India’s Health Ministry on Monday (April 19) announced a record 273,810 new COVID cases in the previous 24-hour period.
About one in three people tested for COVID-19 in the Indian capital of New Delhi recently returned a positive result, according to the city’s chief minister Sunday.
“The bigger worry is that in the last 24 hours, the positivity rate has increased to around 30% from 24%,” chief minister Arvind Kejriwal told a news briefing Sunday.
“The cases are rising very rapidly. The beds are filling fast,” he said.
People in Delhi have turned to social media to complain about the lack of oxygen canisters and the shortages of hospital beds and drugs.
With more than 15 million people with the infection, India is second to the U.S. which has 31.6 million infections.
Just more than 1% of India’s population has been vaccinated, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. – Report from VOA News
