A woman leans against a stretcher holding her husband in the corridor of the emergency ward of Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College and Hospital, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Bhagalpur, in the eastern state of Bihar, India, July 27, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui
A woman leans against a stretcher holding her husband in Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College and Hospital, Bhagalpur, Bihar, July 2020. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui
Bengaluru: India reported on Thursday the highest single-day death toll from COVID-19 in the world, at 6,148, after Bihar revised its figures to account for people who succumbed to the disease at home or in private hospitals.
The health department of Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, revised its total COVID-related death toll on June 9 to more than 9,400 from about 5,400.
The United States had recorded 5,444 COVID-19 deaths on February 12.
India’s total COVID-19 case load now stands at 29.2 million after rising by 94,052 in the past 24 hours, while total fatalities are at 359,676, according to data from the health ministry.
(Reuters – reporting by Manas Mishra in Bengaluru; editing by Jacqueline Wong and Muralikumar Anantharaman)
