Death toll in India exceeds 300,000 The Health Ministry on Monday reported new deaths in the last 24 hours and raised the number of deaths to over 300,000.
India’s death toll from COVID-19 virus tops 300,000
India passed another grim milestone Monday with the loss of more than 300,000 people to Coronavirus, as a devastating wave of infection appeared more slowly in big cities but swamped poorer rural areas.
The milestone recorded by India’s Health Ministry comes at a time when the slow pace of vaccinations affected the country’s fight against the pandemic, forcing many people to get vaccinated.
The Health Ministry on Monday reported new deaths in the past 24 hours of 4,454 and brought the total number of deaths in India to 303,720.
Both figures are almost certainly lower than the actual number.
In the capital, New Delhi, residents died in their homes without oxygen as hospitals are exhausted.
In Mumbai, Covid-19 patients died in overcrowded hospitals.
In rural villages, fever and shortness of breath took people before they were tested for the coronavirus.
Although the last few days have seen signs of improvement in the megacities, the virus is by no means finished with India.
It appears to have already taken a gruesome toll in the country’s vast rural areas, where the majority of the population lives and where medical care is limited.
In recent weeks, hundreds of corpses rinsed up on the banks of the Ganges River in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Many others were buried in flat graves next to their sandpits.
