India COVID Second Wave

Thursday, Apr 18, 2024 | Last Update : 07:19 PM IST

The surge was blamed on the Delta variant and government complacency after Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared victory over the virus in January. (AP)

India hits 400,000 coronavirus deaths as vaccinations slow

Total deaths are 400,312, according to the health ministry, behind only the United States and Brazil, with total cases almost 30.5 million

02 Jul 2021 1:54 PM

People stand outside a COVID vaccination centre in Bengaluru, June 28, 2021. (PTI/Shailendra Bhojak)

India sees slight rise in COVID cases, reports 48,786 new infections, 1,005 deaths

The active cases have further declined to 5,23,257 comprising 1.72 per cent of the total infections

01 Jul 2021 11:34 AM

COVID-19 patients receive treatment at CWG village COVID-19 Care Centre near Akshardham, in New Delhi, Friday, May 21, 2021. (PTI/Ravi Choudhary)

India records 2.57 lakh fresh COVID-19 cases, 4,194 fatalities

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease in the country surged to 2,30,70,365

22 May 2021 11:12 AM

The second wave of the epidemic has caught India’s creaking health infrastructure on the wrong foot again. (PTI /Kamal Kishore)

Dilip Cherian | Grassroots gap: Doctors intensify call for all-India medical service

FORDA has renewed the demand and written to PM Modi asking him to expedite the creation of a national medical service

20 May 2021 7:43 AM

Medical staff wearing PPE suits (Personal Protection Equipment) transfers a body of a patient who died of Covid-19 coronavirus into a ambulance at mortuary in New Delhi on May 18, 2021. (Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)

India logs 13 per cent fall in new COVID cases in week; still highest globally: WHO

Globally, despite a declining trend, the incidence of cases remains at some of the highest levels since the start of the pandemic

19 May 2021 12:10 PM

Earlier, in his monthly “Mann ki Baat” radio address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said a powerful positivity message needs to go out. (PTI)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Positivity effect: Govt has to do things differently

Rather than viewing criticism negatively, the criticism-averse govt can also help transform public perceptions by responding more positively

18 May 2021 7:27 AM

The official position of our government in response to a shortage of vaccines and a shortage of oxygen and of ventilators is that nobody could have anticipated this. (AFP)

Aakar Patel | Govt needed to have ‘grip’ over Covid: That is what PM lacks

The reason we don’t have enough vaccines is that we did not order them at the right time because we didn’t think we needed them

18 May 2021 7:14 AM

Family members of COVID-19 patients wait outside an oxygen-filling centre to refill their empty cylinders, as demand for the gas rises due to spike in coronavirus cases, at Naraina, in New Delhi, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (PTI/Manvender Vashist)

Sunanda K. Datta Ray | Caring governance vital to save lives & India’s future

The devastating second wave might not have struck so ferociously had it not been for the government’s triumphalism

28 Apr 2021 7:23 AM

A health worker takes the body temperature of incoming passengers at a railway terminus following restrictions imposed by the state government amidst rising Covid-19 coronavirus cases Mumbai on April 7, 2021. (Indranil Mukherjee / AFP)

COVID-19: India reports highest daily spike of over 1.26 lakh new cases

A total of 1,66,862 deaths due to the disease have been reported so far in the country

08 Apr 2021 11:12 AM

A health worker takes a swab sample for a Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT) at a roadside market following restrictions imposed by the state government amidst rising Covid-19 coronavirus cases, in Mumbai on April 6, 2021. (Indranil Muukherjee / AFP)

India reports 1.15 lakh fresh COVID-19 cases: Biggest single-day rise so far

The single-day rise in coronavirus cases breached the 1-lakh mark for the second time in three days

07 Apr 2021 11:24 AM

A health worker takes a swab sample to test for COVID-19 outside shopping mall in Mumbai, Saturday, April 3, 2021. (AP/Rajanish Kakade)

COVID-19: India records over one lakh new cases in single day for first time

The single-day rise in cases surpassed the earlier peak of 97,894 infections reported on Sept 17, last year, making it the highest so far

05 Apr 2021 11:13 AM

A health worker collects a nasal sample from a passenger for COVID-19 test, amid coronavirus pandemic, in New Delhi on April 2, 2021. (PTI/Kamal Kishore)

India records this year's biggest single-day jump of 93,249 COVID-19 cases

This is the biggest daily rise in cases since September 19, when 93,337 fresh infections were recorded

04 Apr 2021 10:42 AM

A health worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 near the landmark Gateway of India in Mumbai, on April 2, 2021. (AP/Rajanish Kakade)

India records 89,129 COVID-19 cases, 714 deaths in a day, highest in over six months

Corresponding to the rapid surge in cases, the number of active cases too have registered a steady increase for the 24th day in a row

03 Apr 2021 11:23 AM

A health worker, wearing PPE, conducts COVID-19 testing of a passenger at CSMT station, as coronavirus cases surge across the country, in Mumbai, on April 1, 2021. (PTI)

COVID-19: Single-day rise of 81,466 cases in India, highest in six months

Registering a steady rise for the 23rd day in row, the active cases have increased to 6,14,696 comprising 5 per cent of the total infections

02 Apr 2021 11:19 AM

Medical workers note down details of tourists for a Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test at India Gate lawns in New Delhi on March 27, 2021. (Prakash SINGH / AFP)

India records 68,020 new COVID cases, highest single-day spike since October

India's COVID tally had crossed 20 lakh mark on August 7 last year, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16

29 Mar 2021 11:01 AM

A health worker collects a swab sample from a passenger for Rapid Antigen Test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a railway station In New Delhi on Match 25, 2021, as India recorded over 50,000 new coronavirus cases for the first since October, while a new wave of infections takes hold a year after one of the world's tightest lockdowns was imposed. (Prakash SINGH / AFP)

Surge in fresh COVID-19 cases, India records 59,118 new infections

The health ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities

26 Mar 2021 11:57 AM

Health workers prepare to takes swab samples to test for COVID-19 at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai, on March 23, 2021. (AP/Rajanish Kakade)

India records highest single-day spike with 47,262 fresh COVID-19 cases

The daily rise in infections was the highest recorded in 132 days, while the country's COVID-19 death toll increased to 1,60,441

24 Mar 2021 10:57 AM

A health worker collects swab sample from a person for COVID-19 test, near Kashmere Gate in New Delhi. (PTI)

COVID-19: India records highest single-day spike this year with 43,846 new cases

Registering an increase for the 11th day in a row, the total active caseload has increased to 3,09,087

21 Mar 2021 11:33 AM

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