By SHEIKH SAALIQ and BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has recorded the pandemic's highest single-day death toll in the world. The Health Ministry reported 4,529 deaths on Wednesday as the coronavirus spreads beyond cities into the vast countryside, where health systems are weak. The number is almost certainly an undercount. The previous record for daily deaths from the virus was set on January 12 in the United States, when 4,475 people died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Confirmed infections in India are beginning to decline, but deaths have continued to rise. India's vaccination drive […]
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