Family members and relatives wearing protective gear arrive to cremate the bodies of victims who died of the COVID-19 at an open air crematorium on the outskirts of Bangalore on Saturday.
Family members and relatives wearing protective gear arrive to cremate the bodies of victims who died of the COVID-19 at an open air crematorium on the outskirts of Bangalore on Saturday.
India reported its highest daily death toll — 4,187 people — on Saturday, weeks into the world's worst wave of coronavirus cases that's leaving people without lifesaving hospital beds, oxygen and drugs.
In all, nearly 240,000 people in India are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, with reported infections topping 21 million.
"There's a shortage of tests," Santosh Pandey, who resides near the holy city of Varanasi in northern India, told NPR in April.
Crematoriums across India have said only a fraction of the bodies they receive each day are getting counted by the government.
India's COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been plagued by delays and shortages, even though it is home to the world's biggest vaccine maker, the Serum Institute of India, located in the western city of Pune.
On Saturday, the Indian government announced the launch of an experimental drone program to get the shots delivered faster to more remote locations
The states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in southern India each announced the latest lockdowns, with two weeks of restrictions set to go into effect starting Monday
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