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Bangalore / New Delhi, Jul 20 (EFE/EPA).- The official Covid-19 death toll in India stood at around 400,000 at the end of June 2021 but the reality could be “catastrophically worse,” with estimates of excess deaths in the Asian country during the pandemic being as high as 4 million according to a new research published Tuesday.Excess mortality is an estimation of the number of deaths from all causes during a crisis that are above normal levels.Earlier this year, India was overwhelmed by a huge second wave of Covid-19, which pushed the country’s hospitals to the brink amid a shortage of oxygen and medical supplies. (Camera: ARCHIVE).ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF THE FUNERAL OF THE COVID-19 VICTIMS IN BANGALORE AND NEW DELHI, INDIA.
Images show an overcrowded Covid-19 ward inside a New Delhi hospital where two or three patients share a single bed, with barely enough space for others to stand. India's daily coronavirus death toll has set a new record and the government is battling to get oxygen to hospitals overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of new daily cases. IMAGES
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France recorded 330 new coronavirus deaths over the last 24 hours, a rise in the daily toll as the country prepares to begin easing lockdown measures in less than a week. The latest deaths brought the total toll from the epidemic in the country to 25,531, according to top health official Jerome Salomon. VIDEOGRAPHIC
The streets are quiet Sunday in China's cosmopolitan business hub of Shanghai. The city reported 39 Covid deaths Sunday, official data showed, its highest daily toll since a weeks-long lockdown started. IMAGES
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