The health authorities in India revealed today, Thursday the number of infections and deaths of the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19) spiked significantly during the last 24 hours across the country as 379.257 thousand people caught the deadly virus, meanwhile, 3645 people died yesterday only.
The Federal Ministry of Health revealed that the total number of infections with COVID-19 in India exceeded 18.38 million confirmed cases.
On the other hand, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the Indian variant of the COVID-19 is main responsible for the human disaster that threatens India now.
The UN organization indicated the Indian variant has invaded 17 countries across the planet so far.
Over the last few days, India, the most populous country in the world after China, became the epicenter of the pandemic.
It registers record numbers of infections on the daily basis and it comes forth in the death toll of the pandemic.
Figures of the federal government in India unveil that more than 300 thousand people every day throughout the last week.
The health facilities and cremation places failed to deal with the increasing numbers of deaths.
The whole world responds positively to help India cope with this catastrophe.
Arendam Bagchi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in India, tweeted that the first shipment of medical aids sent by the United Kingdom (UK) landed in one of the airports of the country hours ago.
This shipment includes 100 respirator apparatuses and condensers of oxygen.
On the other hand, other countries such as the United States of America (USA), Germany, Israel, and Pakistan promised to help India to get through the catastrophe.
These countries pledged to provide India with medical apparatuses to enable the medical crews to detect and treat the infected people effectively.
India, with 1.4 billion people, always suffers from chronic shortages in units of intensive care.
Poor people were obliged to head for temporary places to cremate their relatives, who died of COVID-19, there
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