India coronavirus deaths hit 50,000: health ministry
Coronavirus chronicle
17 August, 2020, 02:35 pm
Last modified: 17 August, 2020, 02:40 pm
India’s death toll from the pandemic now stands at 50,921
A policeman stands past migrant workers and their families waiting for transport to reach to a railway station to board trains to their home states, after a limited reopening of India's giant rail network following a nearly seven-week lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Ahmedabad, India, May 15, 2020. REUTERS/Amit Dave
India's death toll from the coronavirus hit 50,000 on Monday, with more than 900 new fatalities reported in 24 hours, health ministry data showed.
The country last week overtook Britain with the world's fourth-highest number of deaths, behind the United States, Brazil and Mexico, and has recorded 2.6 million infections.
India's death toll from the pandemic now stands at 50,921, an increase of 941 from the previous day, according to the health ministry's website.
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