India sees record 4,187 Covid-19 deaths, 401,078 cases in 24 hours
India reported -- 4,187 -- the highest number of Covid-19 deaths in a day and over four lakh daily cases for the fourth time in a week.
Indian Health Ministry data this morning showed 401,078 cases of coronavirus, taking the caseload to over 21.8 million.
India is the third country after the United States and Brazil to have recorded over 4,000 deaths in a single day, reports our New Delhi correspondent.
With this, the total toll has climbed to 238,270 with a fatality rate of 1.09 percent.
More than 17.9 million have recovered so far while the active cases are at 3,723,446.
The alarming surge in daily cases has forced three states -- Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Manipur -- to clamp complete lockdown of varying period to break the transmission of the virus, joining a long list of states to do so.
A two-week lockdown has been announced in Tamil Nadu and in adjacent Karnataka from May 10 while in Manipur, curfew will be enforced till May 17.
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