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Photos: India reports more than 200,000 single-day Covid-19 cases
India reported a record 200,000 new Covid-19 cases over the last 24 hours, according to health ministry data released April 15. The surge was the seventh record daily increase in the last eight days and comes as India battles a massive second wave of infections that has its epicentre in the state of Maharashtra, home to Mumbai. The state accounts for about a quarter of the country's total cases.
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Patients sitting on a bed waiting to be shifted to a hospital in Ahmedabad on April 14. India reported over 2 lakh coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases on April 15, the highest single-day spike so far in the country since the pandemic broke out.(Amit Dave / REUTERS)
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People push trolleys loaded with grocery items as others wait to enter a supermarket in Mumbai ahead of 15-day-long statewide restrictions to check the spread of Covid-19, on April 14. The single-day spike of 2,00,739 cases comes a day after 1,84,372 Covid-19 cases were recorded on April 14.(Niharika Kulkarni / REUTERS)
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Gateway of India wears a deserted look following restrictions imposed by the state government, amidst rising Covid-19 cases, in Mumbai on April 15. New Delhi and several of other cities and towns have already imposed night curfews as they battle surging infections.(Kunal Patil / PTI)
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Workers setting up a temporary quarantine facility for Covid-19 patients at CWG village in New Delhi on April 14. With cases charting upwards, Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal on April 15 announced that a weekend curfew was being added to existing curbs imposed to arrest the number of infections.(Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)
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Migrant workers and other travellers leaving the city as Covid-19 cases in the NCR region rise, at Kaushambi Bus Terminal in Ghaziabad on April 14. In recent days, increased numbers of migrant workers fearing the return of lockdown like situations from last year have been seen at railway stations and bus terminals(Sakib Ali / HT Photo)
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Travellers at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) railway station being screened for Covid-19 in Mumbai. Despite injecting about 114 million vaccine doses, the highest figure worldwide after the United States and China, India has covered only a small part of its 1.4 billion people.(Bhushan Koyande / HT Photo)
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A man wearing a protective suit sits next to the bodies of the victims of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) inside an ambulance at a mortuary of a hospital in Ahmedabad on April 15. The toll from the disease remained above 1,000 for the second day in a row with the addition of 1,038 fatalities on April 15.(Amit Dave / REUTERS)
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