New Delhi was being put under a weeklong lockdown Monday night as an explosive surge in coronavirus cases pushed India’s capital’s health system to its limit.Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said in a news conference the national capital was facing shortages of oxygen and some medicine.
India records over 200K COVID-19 cases in a day amid festivals, election rallies “I do not say that the system has collapsed, but it has reached its limits,” Kejriwal said, adding that harsh measures were necessary to “prevent a collapse of the health system.”According to India’s health ministry on Monday, Delhi reported 25,462 cases and 161 deaths in the past 24 hours.India overall reported 273,810 new infections on Monday, its highest daily rise since the.