India reported a record 412,262 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and a record 3,980 daily death toll, as a second wave of infections swamps the health system and spreads from cities into the vast countryside.COVID-19 infections in the world’s second most populous nation have surged past 21 million, with a death toll of 230,168, health ministry data show.Government modeling had forecast a peak in second wave infections by Wednesday.“This temporarily halts speculations of a peak,” Rijo M John, a professor at the Indian Institute of Management in the southern state of Kerala, said on Twitter.
Canada sends medical supplies to India as COVID-19 overwhelms country’s health care With hospitals scrabbling for beds and oxygen in response to the.