Srinagar: Coronavirus is giving India a tough fight as more than 40,425 fresh infections and 681 deaths were recorded on Sunday alone. The total COVID death toll now stands at 27,497 and the number of infections has crossed the 11 lakh mark.
According a data showed by Health Ministry of India, Maharashtra continues to report the highest number of cases, followed by Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Karnataka, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
On Saturday, the worst-hit COVID state of India, Maharashtra crossed 3 lakh infection cases and has reported more than 11000 deaths so far, followed by Delhi with the second-highest number of deaths (3628).
As the cases are on a rapid surge in Delhi, the Northern Railway has offered to provide 503 isolation coaches which equate to 8,048 beds as COVID care centres at nine different stations of Delhi on the request of the government, a Delhi based news agency ANI reported.
For this, Delhi’s Anand Vihar, Safdarjung, Delhi Shahdara, Adarsh Nagar, Delhi Cantt, Badli and Tughlaqabad are the areas which have been chosen. This was done in the cause of the upsurge of the virus in India’s national capital where 1,211 new cases of infections took the toll to 1,22,793.
The Delhi government is also aiming to set another 600 intensive care unit (ICU) beds in three hospitals dedicated to COVID patients, reported a national newspaper Hindustan Times.
Pertinently, India is the third country to record more than one million coronavirus cases, preceded by the United States and Brazil.
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