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India Sees Highest Rise In Coronavirus Deaths In a Day (CNN)
India's health care system and other essential services are close to collapse as a second coronavirus wave that started in mid-March tears through the country with devastating speed. On April 21, the country saw its highest daily rise in infections and deaths since the start of the pandemic -- 295,041 new Covid-19 cases and 2,023 fatalities -- as hospitals turn away patients and beg for more oxygen, while desperate families plead for beds and medicines on social media.
