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Photos: India adds over 350,000 single day Covid-19 cases
The Union ministry of health and family welfare dashboard showed on April 26 morning India’s Covid-19 tally has risen to 17,313,163 including related 195,123 deaths. India first saw more than 300,000 new Covid-19 cases on April 22 and has seen record cases per day since then.
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A woman is consoled by her relative after her husband died from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outside a Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad on April 26. India’s daily count of cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) stayed above 300,000 for the fifth consecutive day, the Union ministry of health and family welfare dashboard showed on April 26 morning.(Amit Dave / REUTERS)
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Health workers turn away an ambulance at the main entrance of the Lok Nayayak Jaiprakash Hospital in New Delhi on April 25. The country recorded more than 350,000 fresh infections in the last 24 hours for the first time, as a record 352,991 cases took the infection tally to 17,313,163, the dashboard showed.(T. Narayan / Bloomberg)
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A woman holds onto her personal oxygen cylinder at LNJP Hospital in New Delhi on April 22. Active cases, meanwhile, rose by 130,907 infections to 2,813,658 increasing to 16.25% in the overall caseload.(Amal KS / HT Photo)
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A relative holds a bottle of medicine administered to a patient sitting inside a car waiting to enter a Covid-19 hospital for treatment in Ahmedabad on April 26. The same period also saw 219,272 more people defeating the deadly disease, taking total recovered cases to14,304,382 with the national recovery rate registering a marginal drop to 82.62%.(Amit Dave / REUTERS)
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Grieving relatives and family members of Covid-19 victims wait outside Maulana Azad Medical College mortuary to collect their bodies in New Delhi on April 25. As many as 2,812 people succumbed to the viral disease during this period, taking the related death toll to 195,123.(Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)
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A man sits on a log while waiting for the funeral of his relative who died of Covid-19, at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for mass cremation of Covid-19 victims in New Delhi on April 24. The toll, which is India’s highest in a single day period, makes it yet another day when more than 2000 people lost their lives.(Altaf Qadri / AP)
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Workers building new platforms to cremate bodies inside a crematorium in New Delhi on April 26. The country’s fatality rate due to the infection thus stands at 1.13%.(Adnan Abidi / REUTERS)
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