India, suffering from one of the worst Covid-19 outbreaks in the world, reported nearly 370,000 fresh infections and more than 3,700 new deaths today.
The devastating wave has overwhelmed India's healthcare system, and experts have said the official figures for cases and fatalities are much lower than the actual numbers.
The situation in India has been worsened by a new variant, which is more contagious and there are fears it could potentially dodge some vaccine protections, the World Health Organization's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told AFP on Saturday.
The Indian outbreak has spread to some of its neighbours, with Nepal reeling from a worrying spike in cases. Because of the outbreak in the Himalayan nation, China will set up a