India becomes the third nation with the most deaths from Covid

India has become the third country with the most deaths caused by COVID-19, according to the count of Johns Hopkins University, an expert entity in research regarding the numbers of people affected by the pandemic around the world. The Asian nation surpassed the number of deaths from coronavirus in Mexico on Monday, making it the country with the third highest number of deaths from COVID-19 worldwide, behind the United States and Brazil. Asian country is 218,959, according to its Ministry of Health and Johns Hopkins University. In Mexico, the death toll is 217,233. Meanwhile, the United States has 577,045 deaths and Brazil with 407,639, according to the latest official count of the institution. The 3,417 new deaths registered in the last 24 hours raised the total of deaths to 218,959, an official figure that, according to numerous experts, It could actually be higher as crematoria and cemeteries work tirelessly in cities like the capital New Delhi. Ten of the country’s 36 regions, including western Maharashtra, New Delhi, or southern Karnataka, account for 73.8 % of new daily infections, while the positivity rate stands at 21.2% when just a month ago it was below 6%, as the EFE agency pointed out, India also has the second highest number of total cases of COVID-19 reported worldwide, behind the United States. The North American giant has 32,421,713 infected, India has 19,925,517, Brazil has 14,754,910, France is 5,713,393 and Turkey has 4,875,388.In this way, India is close to 20 million infections by coronavirus with a vaccination rate that is too slow. The process to inoculate vaccines in India has not developed optimally since the start of the vaccination campaign in January, with some 157 million doses administered so far. The Indian country registered 368,147 new infections in the last 24 hours, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health of the Asian country, a slight drop for the second day in a row after surpassing the barrier of 400,000 positives for the first time on Saturday. For their part, the Indian authorities are investigating whether the lack of oxygen in a hospital caused this Monday the death of 24 patients, and various medical centers in cities such as New Delhi are forced to reject new patients due to lack of oxygen. This situation is coupled with the lack of beds in the Indian capital, in the face of the desperation of critically ill patients and their families, some of whom have been forced to go from one hospital to another in search of care. of the world due to the pandemic, taking into account the number of infections, surpassed only by the United States (32.4 million), is plunged into a devastating second wave that drowns its health system.