India reported more than 2,000 deaths from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours, the highest single-day tally for the country so far, health ministry data showed on Wednesday (April 21).<img alt="" data-caption="A patient is wheeled outside a Covid-19 hospital, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Ahmedabad, India, April 19, 2021.
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India’s overall case tally is now at 15.6 million, second only to the United States, which has over 31 million infections.<img alt="" data-caption="A man expresses his gratitude to the owner of an oxygen cylinder filing station after he got a cylinder refilled for his relative who is suffering from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in New Delhi, India, April 19, 2021.
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