Coronavirus LIVE: India administers 2 million vaccine doses on Wednesday

Coronavirus live updates:  India recorded 4,2015 fresh Covid-19 cases, almost 40 per cent higher than Tuesday. As many as 3,998 people died of the disease over 24 hours, said the health ministry.
 
The spike in daily numbers is attributed to Maharashtra clearing its backlog. India now has 312,163,37 cases in total and 418,480 people have died of the disease yet.

No deaths due to lack of oxygen were specifically reported by states and Union territories during the second Covid-19 wave, the government said in a written statement in Parliament on Tuesday.

World coronavirus updates: Japan’s top Covid-19 adviser, Shigeru Omi, said that Tokyo’s daily coronavirus cases could hit a new record in the first week of August, potentially reaching a figure close to 3,000 as the city hosts the Olympic games. The delta variant now makes up 83% of all sequenced Covid-19 cases in the U.S., a Senate hearing was told.