Health workers wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) take details of a resident at a Covid-19 screening camp in Mumbai, India, on August 17, 2020.
Many experts say the real numbers may be far higher due to low testing rates and because deaths are often not properly recorded in the vast and impoverished nation of 1.3 billion people.
With some of the world's biggest megacities and slums, India is already the third-most infected nation behind the US and Brazil with 2.65 million infections.
Despite the rising death toll, the health ministry said on Sunday that India's virus mortality rate of 1.92 percent was "one of the lowest globally".
New Delhi,
India's official coronavirus death toll soared past 50,000 on Monday as the pandemic rages through smaller cities and rural areas where health care is feeble and stigmatisation rife.
