FILE PHOTO: A health worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) uses his mobile phone to record details of the residents during a check-up campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India, July 22, 2020. REUTERS/Hemanshi Kamani
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India reported over 49,000 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus with 740 new deaths on Friday, marking the biggest daily surge in cases even as officials in some states complained of shortages of vital drugs for those hospitalized.
As the number of cases neared 1.3 million in India, local authorities scrambled to procure generic versions of remdesivir, the drug that has shown promise in clinical trials in treating severely-ill patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
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