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According to Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao, as of the 29th local time, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in India has exceeded 18 million, and the number of newly diagnosed and dead cases on that day once again set a new global single-day high.

According to reports, data from the Ministry of Health of India showed that there were 379,257 new confirmed cases and 3645 new deaths in the country that day, and the cumulative number of deaths reached 204,832. According to Reuters, this is a "deadly" day for any country affected by the epidemic.

According to a report by the Hindustan Times on April 25, after six COVID-19 patients in a private hospital died due to lack of oxygen supply in Amritsar, an important city in Punjab, India, the state government ordered the suspension of the steel industry in the state, and use oxygen for the treatment of COVID-19 patients.

The chief minister of the Punjab government, Captain Amarinder Singh, said that he has ordered the closure of industrial production in steel plants and notified the central government of India of this decision. The state government decided to establish an oxygen control room at the state and district levels, and at the same time instructed the city of Amritsar to conduct a thorough investigation into the tragedy of this private hospital.