West Bengal, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday reported the biggest single-day rise in coronavirus cases since the pandemic started last year.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for supplying 700 metric tonnes of oxygen on Wednesday. He also promised to ensure that no one dies of oxygen shortage if the Capital receives this amount of the life-saving gas every day. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court told the Centre that its formula for working out oxygen allocation in Delhi was a “gross underestimate”.
India on Thursday registered 4,12,262 new coronavirus cases, taking the tally in the country to 2,10,77,410 since the pandemic broke out in January 2020. This is the highest rise in daily cases and the second instance, after May 1, when the count rose by more than 4 lakh. The toll climbed by 3,980 deaths – also a record high for India – to 2,30,168.
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