Grief News, India Again Records Daily Record Of Corona Virus Infection Of 332,730 Cases

JAKARTA - The COVID-19 tsunami, which is still hitting India, has made the daily case report of infection return to a heartbreaking record, amid the health crisis experienced by India.

According to Reuters, daily infection cases in India on Friday, April 23 reached 332,730 cases, up far from the previous day's record of 314,835 cases. Much higher than the previous record recorded by the United States of 297,430 cases in January.

The number of deaths in the past 24 hours also jumped to a record 2,263, the Indian Ministry of Health said. Meanwhile, officials in northern and western India, including the capital, New Delhi, warned most hospitals were full and running out of oxygen.

The spike in cases came when a fire at a hospital in the suburbs of Mumbai treating COVID-19 patients killed 13 people on Friday, the latest accident to hit a facility in India that is overcrowded with the coronavirus.

"The fire at the COVID-19 hospital in Virar is very tragic," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Twitter, agreeing to compensation for the victim's relatives.

New Delhi reports more than 26,000 new cases and 306 deaths, or about one every five minutes, the fastest since the pandemic began.

Medical oxygen and bedding are becoming scarce. Major hospitals posted room absence notices, and police were deployed to secure oxygen supplies.

Max Healthcare, which runs a network of hospitals in north and west India, posted a call on Twitter on Friday for emergency oxygen supplies at its Delhi facilities.

"We regret to inform you that we have suspended admissions of new patients at all of our hospitals in Delhi, until the oxygen supply has stabilized," the company said.

On a separate occasion, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Michigan, United States, Bhramar Mukherjee, said that at that time India did not seem to have a social safety net for its citizens.

"Everyone is fighting for their own survival and trying to protect their loved ones. This is hard to see," he said.