COVID cases in India have risen to a record 414,188; deaths 3,915 | waves are Coronavirus pandemic News

India has reported a record daily increase in 414,188 coronavirus cases, with COVID-19 deaths rising by 3,915, according to data from the Ministry of Health.

There are currently a total of 21.49 million coronavirus infections in India. The death toll has risen to a total of 234,083, the ministry said on Friday.

The South Asian nation, which is battling a second strong wave of coronavirus, has added 1.57 million cases and just over 15,100 deaths this week alone.

Experts believe the number of daily cases and deaths are low.

K Vijay Raghavan, the government’s chief scientific adviser, said the case blast was a “very critical moment for the country” and warned The third “inevitable” wave.

Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, has suggested a two-week shutdown in India is needed to help exacerbate infections.

“As soon as the cases start to come in, you can insert more people and advance the trajectory when the pandemic broke out,” Fauci told CNN News18 on Thursday in an interview with Indian television.

Fauci suggested that India should mobilize its army to lift the pressure on its hospital pressures to lift rural hospitals.

Fauci also said that there appear to be at least two types of virus variants circulating in India. He said B117, which is the UK variant, tends to pile up in New Delhi and variant 617 piles up in the worst state in western Maharashtra.

“These two have the ability to transmit better and more efficiently than the original Wuhan strain a year ago,” Fauci said.

Meanwhile, hospital oxygen demand has increased sevenfold since last month, a government official said, India is making efforts to set up large oxygen plants and transport oxygen to health services.

By order of the Supreme Court, the Indian government on Thursday approved the provision of more medical oxygen to hospitals in the capital New Delhi after a two-week chronic shortage worsened the country’s coronavirus crisis.

The government has raised oxygen to 730 tonnes from 490 tonnes per day on the orders of the New Delhi Supreme Court.

COVID-19 involved 12 patients, including a doctor, after he died at Batra Hospital in New Delhi last week was exhausted medical oxygen for 80 minutes.

On Wednesday night, COVID-19 killed 11 other patients as pressure on an oxygen supply line ceased to operate at a government medical university in southern India’s Chengalpattu, The Times of India reported that a faulty valve could have caused the incident.

Hospital authorities said they repaired the oxygen line last week, but requests for the supply line and oxygen consumption have doubled since then, the newspaper said.

Government officials have denied that the reports have been slow in distributing lifelong medical supplies provided abroad.

Oxygen-carrying ships are heading to India from Bahrain and Kuwait in the Persian Gulf, officials said.

Most hospitals in India do not have their own plants to generate oxygen for patients. As a result, hospitals typically rely on liquid oxygen, which can be stored in cylinders and transported in tanker trucks.

Dr. Himal Dev, head of the critical care unit at Apollo Hospital in the southern Bengaluru city, said COVID-19 patients in intensive care rooms need at least 10-15 liters of oxygen because of reduced lung function per minute.

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said India has enough oxygen but has limited capacity to get it where it needs to go. Most of the oxygen is generated in eastern India, but demand for supply has risen in the north and west.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed the state of the coronavirus with top officials on Thursday and told them to step up the path to getting the country vaccinated.

The country, with a population of nearly 1.4 billion, has so far administered 162 million doses, but lacks vaccines.

The US, UK, Germany and many other countries are urging medicine, rapid virus testing and oxygen and materials to boost the country’s internal production of vaccines to ease the pressure on the country’s weak health infrastructure.

Thanks to the production of vaccines in India, the US will renounce the intellectual property protection of COVID-19 vaccines.

U.S. vaccine components that will reach India will allow the manufacture of 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, said Daniel B Smith, chief diplomat at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi.

Last month, Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of India’s Serum Institute, the world’s largest vaccine maker, called on US President Joe Biden to lift the embargo on U.S. raw material exports, saying his company was affected by COVID production. -19 shots.

The government, meanwhile, said the reports in the Indian media were “completely misleading” as it took seven days for health authorities to develop a procedure for distributing urgent medical supplies that began arriving on April 25 from other countries.

The government said in a statement that a mechanism has been put in place to distribute the supplies received in India for efficient distribution. The document states that the Indian Red Cross Association is involved in distributing supplies abroad.