A woman mourns after her husband died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outside a mortuary of a COVID-19 hospital in Ahmedabad, India, May 8, 2021. AdvertisementThe state's oxygen shortages prompted the high court on Wednesday to order the federal government to increase the daily liquid medical oxygen supplied to Karnataka. Researchers' calculations on India's true death toll are based on a statistical model that takes into account 'excess mortality' data - meaning deaths that occur above established averages. Based on their calculations, India will top 1million Covid deaths by May 27 having taken until April 12 to reach 500,000. It means India could end up with the world's highest Covid death toll, even if excess mortality isn't taken into account.

Source: Daily Mail May 08, 2021 08:37 UTC