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“#India’s capital to lock down as nation’s virus cases top 15M<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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New Delhi was being put under a weeklong lockdown Monday night as an explosive surge in coronavirus cases pushed the India’s capital’s health system to its limit.<\/p>\n

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said in a news<\/a> conference the national capital was facing shortages of oxygen and some medicine.<\/p>\n

“I do not say that the system has collapsed, but it has reached its limits,” Kejriwal said, adding that harsh measures were necessary to “prevent a collapse of the health system.”<\/p>\n

According to India’s health ministry on Monday, Delhi reported 25,462 cases and 161 deaths in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

India overall reported 273,810 new infections on Monday, its highest daily rise since the start of the pandemic and now has reported more than 15 million infections, a total second only to the United States.<\/p>\n

The Health Ministry also reported 1,619 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, pushing the toll over 178,769. India has the fourth highest number of deaths after the U.S., Brazil and Mexico\u2014though, with nearly 1.4 billion people, it has a much larger population than any of those countries.<\/p>\n

The soaring cases and deaths come just months after India thought it had seen the worst of the pandemic, but experts say even these figures are likely an undercount.<\/p>\n