India has confirmed 326,098 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 24,372,907, the country’s ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday.
The death toll from the disease has reached 266,207 people, with 3,890 new fatalities being recorded over the past day.
More than 20,43 million people have recovered in India since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the country confirmed 343,144 new coronavirus cases, with 4,000 fatalities.
World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday expressed concern over the epidemiological situation in India.
“India remains hugely concerning with several states continuing to see a worrying number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths,” Tedros said at a press briefing.
He noted that the WHO has responded to the emergency health situation in India by sending “thousands of oxygen concentrators, tents for mobile field hospitals,” as well as face masks and other medical equipment necessary to curb the spread of the virus.
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