India Reports 380,000 New COVID-19 Cases... 'Another Record High'

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Bo-kyung] The daily number of new COVID-19 cases in India has reached 380,000, showing no signs of slowing down.

According to the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on the 29th, the daily new COVID-19 cases (the sum of state-level statistics over approximately 24 hours from the previous day) were recorded at 379,257 as of that morning.

This surpassed the previous highest record of 360,960 set just a day earlier. As a result, India's daily new cases, the highest in the world for consecutive days, have exceeded 300,000 for eight straight days.

The cumulative number of confirmed cases has risen to 18,376,524, ranking second in the world after the United States (32,983,695 cases, according to Worldometer).

The number of new deaths in a single day also hit a record high at 3,645. The daily death toll has exceeded 3,000 for two consecutive days, with the total number of deaths reaching 204,832.

As of this day, approximately 150 million vaccine doses have been administered in India. The number of people fully vaccinated with two doses is about 25.8 million, which is only 1.9% of the population of 1.38 billion.

India's COVID-19 spread, which had significantly slowed down in February, intensified again after March.

Experts analyze that the infection situation in India is worsening to the worst level due to the spread of highly contagious variants amid a significant relaxation in residents' quarantine measures.

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