 India has reported a record daily increase of coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, exacerbating shortages of oxygen supplies and hospital beds in some of the worst-hit cities of the country. Nationwide, India reported it has 261 500 new cases on Sunday, taking the total number of cases to nearly 14.8 million, second only to the United States, which has reported more than 31 million infections. The country's deaths from COVID-19 rose by a record 1,500 and want to reach a total of 177,150. India, hit by the spread of more contagious variants of the disease, is gripling with a severe shortage of hospital beds, oxygen supplies and critical medicines such as the antiviral drug Remdesivise.