India, a country of nearly 1.4 billion people, is the third to cross 400,000 deaths, after the United States and Brazil. Experts believe India's reported deaths and infections are massive undercounts. A man cleans the ashes from a cremated pyre of a victim of Covid-19 in Gauhati, India. Photo / APA model from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimates there have been more than 1.1 million Covid-19 deaths in India. A health worker administers the vaccine for Covid-19 at Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, India.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 03, 2021 02:37 UTC