FILE PHOTO: Pranab Mukherjee speaks to media in the run-up to the Indian presidential election in New Delhi June 26, 2012. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee was put on ventilator support after undergoing surgery having contracted COVID-19, local media reported on Tuesday, quoting unidentified sources at the military hospital in New Delhi where he is admitted.
The reports on Mukherjee, 84, who served as president between 2012 and 2017, came as the federal health ministry once again reported a daily increase of more than 50,000 cases in the coronavirus outbreak. At least 50,000 new cases have been reported in the world's second-most populous country every day since July 30.
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