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India reported more than 314,000 coronavirus cases in one day, the most ever recorded by a single country

By Sinéad Baker
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LNJP Hospital in New Delhi. Ajay Aggarwal/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
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India on Thursday recorded 314,835 coronavirus cases within 24 hours, the highest daily total of any country during the pandemic.

Deaths also rose by 2,104, which is the country's worst recorded daily death toll, according to the BBC.

The country is dealing with a devastating surge of the virus that is overwhelming the health system and leading to a dire shortage of oxygen with which to treat patients. Some hospitals in north India have warned that they have hours' left of oxygen supplies left.

A video from the BBC, published Thursday, showed people dying on stretchers while waiting for help at a New Delhi hospital.

 

India had reported more than 200,000 new cases a day for the previous seven days in a row.

The country is now close to having recorded 16 million coronavirus cases.

Reuters reported that the single-day record for reported cases was previously held by the US, when it recorded 297,430 on one day in January.

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Sinéad Baker is a Military and Defense Correspondent based in Business Insider's London bureau, writing about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and NATO actions.Sinéad most often covers soldiers' experiences, military strategy, battlefield developments, weapons systems, the defense industry's response, and the impact on NATO and European security, and geopolitical decisions that surround the Ukraine war. She has reported from NATO’s frontlines and around Europe,  has interviewed multiple prime ministers and defense ministers, has appeared on BBC News and The Guardian's politics podcast, and has been cited by Congressional hearings.Sinéad has also extensively covered US politics and previously led Business Insider's breaking news coverage from London.Sinéad previously completed a master's degree in investigative journalism at City, University of London, and has written for The Guardian, The Observer, and TheJournal.ie. Sinéad is the former editor of the multi-award-winning The University Times in Dublin.Expertise
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