For the second day in a row, more than 300,000 crore cases were reported in India on Friday, while a fire at a hospital in the state of Maharashtra killed 13 crore patients.
During the second deadly wave of corona in India, more than 300,000 new cases were recorded for the second consecutive day on Friday, while a fire at a hospital in the state of Maharashtra killed 13 corona patients.
According to the Associated Press, 323,730 new cases and 2,263 deaths were recorded in the country on Friday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to more than 16 million and the number of deaths to 186,920.
On the other hand, a fire broke out in a hospital in the Virar area on the outskirts of Mumbai on Friday morning, killing 13 crore patients.
India is currently facing a severe shortage of medical personnel and oxygen due to the rapidly increasing number of corona cases.
Dilip Shah, CEO of Vijay Vallabh Hospital in Virar, said the fire that broke out on Friday morning affected the intensive care unit on the second floor of the hospital where patients were shifted to nearby hospitals. According to him, there are 90 patients in this hospital
State official Vivek Anand Kadam said the cause of the fire was being investigated. An explosion was heard in the air-conditioning section of the intensive care unit before the fire broke out the state of Maharashtra in india is most affected by the corona
It may be recalled that 314,000 new cases of the corona were reported in India on Thursday, which is the highest number of corona cases in the world in 24 hours.
India has so far confirmed 15.9 million cases of corona, the second-highest in the world after the United States, while the number of deaths from corona in India has exceeded 184,000, according to the Ministry of Health.
India’s health system, which already has inadequate facilities, is under severe pressure due to the high incidence of corona cases, and the capacity of hospitals to accommodate patients has been reduced while hospitals are also facing a shortage of vital supplies including oxygen. Is.
Two days before the incident, an oxygen leak at a hospital in Nashik, Maharashtra, killed 24 patients on a ventilator.
