India has reported its highest single-day Covid-19 deaths since July after two states revised their death tolls.

The eastern state of Bihar added 2,426 unrecorded deaths while the southern state of Kerala added 263 deaths to their tallies on Sunday, a federal health ministry spokesperson told Reuters.

The revised figures took single-day deaths to 2,796, the highest since July 21, according to a Reuters tally.

A devastating second wave in March and April this year saw thousands of deaths and millions affected.

A man gets himself inoculated with the coronavirus vaccine at a railway station in New Delhi on December 4. — AFP
A man gets himself inoculated with the coronavirus vaccine at a railway station in New Delhi on December 4. — AFP

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