translated from Spanish: India breaks global contagion record in one day

India recorded 314,835 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, a terrible global record that puts New Delhi hospitals at the limit of their capabilities and confronted with a worrying shortage of medicinal oxygen.
The previous record for one-day cases was held by the United States, when it reported 297,430 in January.
The second wave in India is attributed above all to a “double mutation” of the virus, but also to the recent mass events in the Asian country.
In total, 15.9 million contagions have been reported in India since the onset of the pandemic, making it the second country most affected by coronavirus, behind the United States and ahead of Brazil (14.12 million cases).

However, Brazil, with its 212 million inhabitants, has some 381,000 deaths, twice as many as India, where 1.3 billion people live.
In the last 24 hours, a total of 2,104 deaths were also reported in India, bringing the official balance of the epidemic to 184,657 deaths.
However, the number of cases and deaths in proportion to the population remains significantly lower in India than in many other countries.

Original source in Spanish

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