According to Reuters, the number of new cases per day in India increased continuously over the past 5 days, with 352,991 additional cases within 24 hours, bringing the total number of COVID-19 infections nationwide to more than 17 million people.
On the same day, India also recorded an additional 2,812 deaths from COVID-19, the highest increase since the outbreak in the country.
Currently the US, Europe and Asian countries are sending medical equipment, protective equipment, raw materials for the production of COVID-19 vaccine, ventilators and oxygen generators to India, helping the country cope with The COVID-19 "tsunami" is raging.
Experts say major causes such as poor compliance with safety regulations and highly contagious variations of the corona virus have led to a skyrocketing number of cases in India over the past few days.
Indians still participate in festivals that draw huge crowds from around the country. More than 1,000 people contracted COVID-19 in just 48 hours in Haridwar city, Uttaranchal state after the crowds attended the Kumbh Mela Festival on the banks of the Ganges River.
Ambulance carrying COVID-19 patients in long queues at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in the city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat state, western India on April 22 - Photo: AP
Photo taken on April 23 shows COVID-19 patient waiting to be hospitalized at a hospital complex in New Delhi - Photo: AFP
A COVID-19 patient breathing oxygen while waiting for a hospital bed in New Delhi, India on April 24 - Photo: AP
Patient COVID-19 receives oxygen inside a car supplied by a Gurdwara (Sikh temple) in New Delhi, India on April 24. Medical hypoxia became so severe that this Gurdwara began providing free oxygen to COVID-19 patients waiting for their beds.
People wait for the filling of medical oxygen tanks for patients COVID-19 at an oxygen pump station in the city of Allahabad on April 24 - Photo: AFP
Deserted street in the middle of a weekend blockade in Mumbai, India on April 10 - Photo: AP
Announcing the end of vaccination at the gate of a COVID-19 vaccination center in Mumbai, India on April 20 - Photo: AP
Smoke rose from the chimney of a crematorium, together with the cremation of the corpses of patients COVID-19 burning at a cremation site in the city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh state, central India on April 23 - Photo : AFP
Family members stood near the crematorium of the body of the COVID-19 patient in Virar City on April 23. These patients were killed in a fire - killing 13 COVID-19 patients - at Vijay Vallabh Hospital in Virar - Photo: AFP
Cremation scene of patient COVID-19 patient in New Delhi, India on April 21. Each pile of firewood is a patient - Photo: REUTERS
Family members make a fire to cremate COVID-19 patient at a cremation ground in New Delhi on April 23. Many cremation sites are red and fire day and night, due to the increasing number of COVID-19 patients dying - Photo: REUTERS
A cremation ground with many corpses of COVID-19 patients was cremated close together in New Delhi on April 22 - Photo: REUTERS