Watch | Delhi Govt Seeks Army's Help to Tackle COVID-19 Crisis
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In today’s COVID-19 bulletin, The Wire updates you on all that is happening as India tackles COVID-19. In the last 24 hours, India reported 382,315 coronavirus cases, while deaths rose by a record 3,780 to 226,188.
Rajasthan on Sunday recorded 18,298 fresh coronavirus cases, taking the death toll to 4,558, while 11,262 patients were discharged from hospital on that day. In the national capital, fresh cases of COVID-19 are being reported on a daily basis even as the city reels under an acute shortage of oxygen in hospitals. Amid such a crisis, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Sunday wrote a letter to defence minister Rajnath Singh seeking Army's help to fight against COVID-19 in Delhi.
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