new delhi indias catastrophic covid crisis is deepening by the day with the country consistently reporting a sharp rise in daily infections and fatalitiesthe deluge of cases in the second wave has also strained indias healthcare system forcing hospitals in several states to plead for oxygen due to massive demandhere are some statistics that capture the unprecedented spread of the virus during the second wave243 infections every minuteindia on sunday reported a massive surge of 349 lakh new infections and became the first country in the world to add over 3 lakh cases to its tally for four consecutive daysthe death count also rose by a record 2767 a marginal rise from the previous days toll of 2624it means that on an average every minute india reported as many as 243 infections and added almost two deaths to its toll in the last 24 hours over a million cases in 3 daysindia has reported over a million covid cases in just the last three daysthis is a huge contrast from the situation just a few months ago when it took india almost 65 days to add a million cases to its tally even during its first peak around september last year the country took at least 11 days to register a million casesmoreover india has now been reporting a sixfigure addition to its daily caseload for 19 consecutive dayssince reporting its first surge of over 1 lakh cases india has added over 42 lakh cases to its total caseload active cases swell indias active caseload fell to just 13 lakh in midfebruary after a consistent decline in cases and healthy pace of recoveries this figure has now gone past the 26 million mark in just over 2 months following a nearly 15fold rise in active casesthe sharp spike in active cases has also sent the demand for icu beds and oxygen soaring due to a rush of hospitalisations currently maharashtra accounts for nearly 26 of all active cases in india it is followed by states like up karnataka and keralathese massive numbers have pushed several states to the brink with delhi alone witnessing 539 funerals on fridaywhere india stands globallyon april 24 indias massive spike of over 346 lakh cases accounted for over 40 of all coronavirus infections reported around the worldindias share in the global caseload has been rising due to the surge fueled by its second wave in the last one week india has consistently accounted for at least 30 of all global infectionsin contrast the worsthit country us is witnessing a steady decline in cases with a contribution of just under 6 to the global caseload in the last 24 hourslow testingindia has turned into covid hotspot of the world with the delhi high court equating the flood of infections in the second wave to a tsunamihowever due to the large size of its population a majority of the people are still vulnerable to the virusnearly 10 of the population in the us the worsthit